PSYC 2450 Lecture Notes - James Marcia, Social Cognition, Longitudinal Study
18 Apr 2013
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Self the combination of physical and psychological attributes that is unique to each individual. Social cognition thinking that people display about the thoughts, feelings, motives, and behaviours of themselves and other people. Babies become distressed hearing the cries of another baby, yet not by their own cries, which implies that they have a differentiation of self. Andrew meltzoff the young infant has a body scheme that is present as a psychological primitive right from the earliest phases of infancy. Margaret mahler likens the newborn to chick and egg , there"s no reason to differentiate the self from the surrounding environment. Most agree this can be seen by 2-3 months. Piaget during the first two months they repeat pleasurable acts centered on their body. Once infants know that they exist independent of other entities, they are in a position to find out who or what they are, the basis of self-concept.
