PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Prenatal Development, Heredity, Prefrontal Cortex
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Increased visual info when babies walk vs. crawl explore environment more richly: children learn to think about the world, cognitive development ability to think and understand. Child, adolescent, and adult development: what type of stimuli do infants prefer to look at, novel stimulus. Identity and early childhood: describe themselves in physical terms, usually positively; egocentric, positivity bias, self-enhancement, less pronounced for peers than self, ex. Ide(cid:374)ti(cid:272)al t(cid:449)i(cid:374)s" self-esteem correlated to a greater degree than non-twin siblings: physical appearance, athletic ability, erik erikson (1902-1994, german-american developmental scientist, theory of conflicts and resolutions. Identity formation is chief task of adolescence: conflict-identity vs. confusion, resolution-identity achievement. Identity in adolescence: abstract thinking emerges, personality traits become more important, self-socialization emerges, friends + social groups become important, personal fables (cid:374)o(cid:271)ody gets (cid:449)hat i"(cid:373) goi(cid:374)g th(cid:396)ough (cid:373)e(cid:374)tality. Imaginary audience: thinking people are watching you, remnant of egocentrism from childhood, e(cid:396)ikso(cid:374)"s ide(cid:374)tity theo(cid:396)y, challenges appearing during identity formation. Identity foreclosure: premature identity choice, negative identity.
