PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Longitudinal Study, Midlife Crisis, Neuroticism
23 Jan 2014
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The self: self-understanding, self-esteem and self-concept. Identity confusion: developmental changes: marcia - identity statuses. Personality: trait theories and big five factors, erikson: generativity vs. stagnation, stability and change. Identity: understanding self; who you are, what you believe in, what you want to do. Cognitive representation of the self: based on roles and membership categories. Self-descriptions are physical, concrete, active, and unrealistic positive overestimations: understanding others. Individual differences in social understanding linked to caregivers. Middle and late childhood: self-understanding: 5 key changes. Distinguish between real self and ideal self. Adolescence: abstract and idealistic, self-conscious; preoccupied with self, contradictions within the self multiple roles in different contexts realized, fluctuating self over time and situations, compare real and ideal selves. Possible selves: what persons may be, would like to be, and are afraid of becoming: self-integration in sense of identity. Changes in self-understanding in adulthood: self-awareness. Improves in young and middle adulthood: possible selves. Get fewer and more concrete with age: life review.
