PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: 18 Months, Real Change, Metacognition
27 Jan 2016
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How to describe exactly what it is. Understanding of who and what we are: self-understanding: cognitive representation of who and what we are (our own mental imagine of ourselves, developmental course of self and self-understanding, ties to cognitive development. Piaget would say infants don"t have a concept of self because it is a cognitive representation. Ability to recognize yourself in a mirror. Older chimps know right away what the mirror is and what it does: mark test: Researcher marks a child face, and then gets them to look in the mirror, if they touch the mark that means they recognize it is themselves in the mirror. By age 2 half of the humans can pass this test: mirror technique research (the mark test) Originally used in non-human consciousness research (gallup, Didn"t touch the mirror, which proves that they are aware of themselves. Older (19 months: babies start to notice mark.
