Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Lev Vygotsky, Moral Development, Social Comparison Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Awareness that the self is constant throughout life: categorical self comes once baby realizes they"re separate becoming aware that even though we"re separate, we also exist in the world with others. Ex. age and gender are first babies learn, then skills and size. Then compare ourselves with others traits, comparisons, careers. When the ideal self does not match the real self, the result is incongruity. When we adopt identity of group, we see us as belonging behaving and acting like the category we belong to, ex. a student. Our self-esteem starts to become bound with this group identification and sense of belonging: final step is social comparison how we comparing ourselves with other groups, to maintain our self-esteem. Critical to understanding of prejudice, because once two groups develop as rivals, we compete to maintain self-esteem. Self-esteem is the respect and regard one has for oneself. Self-efficacy belief in one"s abilities to succeed in a particular situation.