PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Girl Guides, Intentionality
10 Jan 2017
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Self-Understanding in Early Childhood
1. Activities oriented
2. Concrete
a. I’ sart, I’ fuy
b. I ko y ABC’s that’s ho I a
3. Physical and material
a. The stuff they have
b. ho are you differet fro your sister? I’ differet eause I hae ro hair ad
she has lode hair
4. Centered
5. Unrealistically positive
a. Actual vs. ideal selves
- Ties to cognitive development
… i iddle to late hildhood
- Shift to internal characteristics
o Preferences, personality
- Decentered
- Spontaneous use of social references
o Im a girl guide
o I have 2 best friends
- More realistic
o Actual vs. ideal selves
o You’re ale to judge yourself ased o soial oparisos
- Ties to cognitive development?
… i Adolesee
- Increasingly abstract self-descriptions
o Who I am inside, how am I feeling
- Very highly self-conscience
- Increased ability to distinguish between actual and ideal selves
o Several ideal selves
o Bad comparison between ideal and actual
o Can be very stressful and upsetting
o Additio of possile seles
▪ Who am i? where will I end up?
- Fluctuations in self-understanding
o Inconsistencies
▪ Renewed struggle to achieve conservation of personality
▪ Confused about who you are day to day
o Eventful integration into whole concept of self
▪ General theory of self survives inconsistences
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