PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Frontal Lobe, Centrality, Hazel Rose Markus
16 Apr 2013
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The self: an individual consciousness of one"s own identity (includes feelings, observations and thoughts) Highest level of who you are, your qualities that are unique to you individual person. Awareness of the self as an entity that is distinct from others and the environment is called self awareness - tested with the mark test (aka rouge test) Once humans are 1. 5 yrs and over they can all pass the mark test. Orangutans closely related to humans also pass the mark test, but other monkeys not so much. Baboons do not pass the mark test, so no clear distinction between the self and other. Self awareness step below theory of mind in the sense that before you understand that you have different thoughts feelings and behaviour from others, you need to realize that you are distinct from others at the basic level. Minimal self: conscious experience of the self as distinct from the environment.
