PSY311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ingroups And Outgroups, Prefrontal Cortex, Collectivism
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Lecture 5 the self and others (1st hour: if you have three, you have three. ** note pay attention to the chapter. Attention: sense of self or self-concept (cognition, self-perception and self-esteem (feelings, identity formation, first rule of anything, pay attention, not there 0% Piece together all these components in addition to the stimulus in: our brains then organize the sensory data into meaningful concepts, self-identity helps us to organize and regulate our behavior. Introspection: process where people look inward and examine their own thoughts, feelings and motives, gets us closer to reality. Means that we can better see why we do things, predict outcomes, and better control out behavior: we only do this 8% of the time but we can improve this by practicing. Little kids do not do this as they have compartmentalized information and it is harder for them to activate this.
