PSYC 3450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Identity Crisis, Social Cognition, James Marcia

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3450
• Professor: Karl Hennig

Document Summary

Self the combination of physical and psychological attributes that is unique to each individual. Looking-glass self the idea that a child"s self concept is largely determined by the ways other people respond to him or her. Proposed by charles cooley the self concept is the image cast by a social mirror. Social cognition thinking that people display the thoughts, feelings, motives, and behaviours of themselves and other people. Self-concept one"s perceptions of one"s unique combination of attributes. Many developmentalists believe that infants are born without a sense of self, while having the capacity to distinguish self from the surrounding environment. Newborns seem capable of proprioceptive feedback from their own facial expressions to mimic at least some of the facial expressions their caregivers display. Proprioceptive feedback sensory information from the muscles, tendons, and joints that helps one locate the position of one"s body (or body parts) inspace.