PSY 2401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mirror Test, Microsoft Word, Kid
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Total of an individual"s beliefs about their own self. (all the stuff you believe about yourself) A belief a person holds about themselves that guides self-relevant information processing. I am a student, so my role as a student affects. Marking babies face, then putting a mirror. If they touch the mirror, then they do not. If they touch their own face, then they. (like i have brown hair, i live in a blue house) Abstract and psychological states (7-9 years old) Process whereby people look inward and examine their thought, feelings, and motives. Not an effective way to find out who we are. The first people to demonstrate why introspection is not good. Their research (the beeps going off randomly) showed that people think about them self is in the middle of all things. Introspection wont work: even if you go home and think about yourself for 2 hours.