PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Semantic Network, Centrality, Social Comparison Theory
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Knowledge of who we are: self awareness. Awareness of the self as an entity different from environment and others: mark test. Same experiment done with babies: babies around 2 usually noticed, when they realized it was them in the mirror shows they have self- When we evaluate and compare our current behaviour against our internal standards and values. Become self-conscious; objective, judgmental observers of ourselves: levels of the self. Minimal self: conscious experience of the self as distinct from the environment. Objectified self: cognitive capacity to serve as the object of one"s own (or other"s) attention. Ability to think of yourself as an object. Symbolic self: ability to form an abstract mental representation of oneself through language: self-concept & self-schema. Self-schema: mental structures that help us to organize our knowledge about ourselves. Concepts/words in semantic network associated with your sense of self.
