PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Erik Erikson, Imaginary Audience, Reinforcement

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3105
• Professor: Jocelyn Wentland

Document Summary

Presentations: physical appearance and social acceptance #1 predictors of self-esteem. Self esteem: defining aspect: baseline self esteem. The way you feel on a daily basis: barometric self esteem. Self esteem at different points of a day, which we don"t measure on a global measure of self esteem. Development and self esteem: decline 9-12/13, a cause is the imaginary audience: think that everyone is noticing you even though this is not the case. Through positive and negative reinforcement: childhood & adolescence, childhood trait centred, adolescence more exploration (abstract and more about personality) Abstract concepts: actual self (who i am, possible self (abstract thinking adolescence, depression rates go up in adolescence, which is not noticed in pre- adolescents. Drop in self esteem: self reflection in adolescence, more complex, can think about multiple perspectives, more abstract thinking, contradictions in who they are who they are not, who am i today, who could i be.