PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mendelian Inheritance, Research Question, Heredity
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Lecture 7: chapter 11 development of self: the self: conceptual system made up of one"s thoughts and attitudes about oneself; can include thoughts of one"s own physical being, social characteristics, and internal characteristics. Behavioral observation of social competence in cooperative tasks. High social competence is associated with high levels of self-understanding and low aggression. Identity confusion: an incomplete and sometimes incoherent sense of self that may cause them to feel lost, isolated and depressed; often occurs in his stage of identity vs identity confusion. Identity foreclosure: premature commitment to an identity without adequate consideration of other options. Identity-achievement status: individual has achieved a coherent and consolidated identity based on personal decisions regarding occupation, ideology, and etc. individual believes that decisions were made autonomously and is committed to them. Family, peers, culture, social role: measuring the self: harter scales, the pictorial scale of perceived competence and social acceptance for young children (harter & pike, 1983, ages 4 to 7.
