PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Mirror Test
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You are not like other people, you have distincts and you are different from the environment. Rouge test: when you look in the mirror, do you see yourself. When your self aware you see yourself in the mirror, if you don"t see yourself in the mirror you are not self aware. The test: put mark on a kids face, if they look in the mirror and point to the mirror= not self aware. If they point to the mark on themselves-self aware. More animals have a sense of self as well. Problems with test: some people argue that it may not represent self awareness it"s just noticing yourself in a mirror. Maybe we"re inferring a little too much from it. If we touch ourself on our arm, we feel it on our hand and on our arm. Something that is a disctinct object from the rest of the environment.
