PSY 101 Lecture 13: PSYCH NOTES 10/30
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Psy101 - october 30 - week 9 notes. One way to test this is to place a mark on the body of an animal without their knowledge, and then expose them to a mirror. If you looked in a mirror and saw a spot on your face, you would clean it off. A reasonable number of animals have passed this test, though there are many possible reasons for false negatives. Assuming we are self aware, there are also things we do that are a product of this. For instance, we think about ourselves as a person distinct from others. As we think about the self, there are some stable traits that reflect how we view the self. As a set, these can be treated as core self-evaluations. These are very related to personality traits. The likelihood of an individual to associate outcomes in life as a product of their own actions or a product of external forces.
