PSYC 473 Lecture Notes - Availability Heuristic, Symbolic Interactionism, Intersubjectivity
21 Feb 2013
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Self-conception processes: prof starts with a story about doing construction at his house; he had to borrow a saw from the chair of the department. Chair of department brought a saw and gave it to baldwin. Baldwin used it and forgot to return it. If we were born without a clear idea of who we are, how do we start to develop the idea of who we are or that we exist. Early forms of existence probably started with communication between people. The notion of sharing or communicating is called intersubjectivity. The example of pointing is given, hey look at that! Yes, i see what you"re looking at! so that"s an example of early parent child interaction and its a shared experience together, out of which the child can extract his or her own per- spective from it. Indeed, when gallup put these chimps in front of the mirror they did not achieve self awareness.
