PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Feral Child, Cognitive Architecture, Bad Life
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Baby elephants will sometimes throw temper tantrums and toss themselves into the mud (cid:449)he(cid:374) the(cid:455)"(cid:396)e upset. Babies do not have a lot of cognitive architecture, so the world and environment around them greatly depict and develop their mind. Anything that activates the emiglyda, constructs (cid:271)a(cid:271)ies" world. Story time from prof, mom pulls out chair for kid, kid gets upset, kid wanted to push the chair in, what happens with young children. So much of our life is filled through our public personas, our identity and how others see us. Behind that though is basic self-awareness and what is in there. That (cid:862)(cid:373)ask(cid:863) is (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e put o(cid:374) fo(cid:396) so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) Fo(cid:396) e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple, (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to sho(cid:449) ou(cid:396) (cid:396)eal a(cid:374)ge(cid:396), e(cid:448)e(cid:374) e(cid:454)te(cid:374)t of self-harm, but usually we do not want to show society, so we put on a mask, behind mask we are vulnerable. Vulnerability allows us to connect with one another, the masks do not let that happen.
