PSYC 2740 Lecture : Ch_14_notes

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Social identity: how you present yourself to others. Infancy: first glimmer of self-concept, child makes distinction between its own body and everything else, rudimentary sense of self awareness of one"s body. Ages 2-3: learn to identify and associate themselves with their sex and age, expand self-concept to include a reference to family ( i am so and so"s brother ) Ages 3-12: self-concepts are based mainly on developing talent and skills ( i can do this or i can"t do that ) This is why many teens go through a period of extreme self-consciousness: episodes of objective self-awareness: seeing oneself as an object of others" attention. Chapter 14 approaches to the self: evaluation apprehension: the experience of being anxious about being negatively evaluated or not positively evaluated. In other words it is the concern for how others are evaluating us. Characterized by significant fear of social humiliation/ embarrassment in 1 or more social/performance situations.