PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Code-Switching, James Marcia, Mirror Neuron

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3105
• Professor: David Collins

Document Summary

Narrow socialization: promote independent, individualistic self, encourage self-reflection, self-esteem valued highly. Interdependent self: needs and interests of others (i. e. , groups) take precedence over self-esteem. What kind of life will i have in 20 years? The self in adolescence: the capacity for abstract thought means an adolescent can distinguish between, actual self who i am , possible selves who i might become play a role in planning, setting priorities, and self-regulation. This is a dynamic process that involves both expanding the range of possibilities, through hypothetical thinking, and narrowing the range, through critical thinking. Self-esteem: defining aspects: baseline self-esteem, stable, enduring sense of worth and well-being the level of positive or negative feelings about the self that is fairly stable over time. Self-esteem in adolescence: during late childhood, self-esteem is pretty high, but it drops during early and middle adolescence, when puberty hits, then rises again in adulthood, decline more severe for girls than boys.