PSY311H5 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 - Knowledge of the Self and Others
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The development of the understanding of the self, and the other people is a lifelong developmental process, which results from individuals cognitive development: i. e. , piaget. An individual acquires social experiences which allows us to learn a lot about ourselves: social comparisons; these observations can be used to arrive at conclusions about yourself and other people. Increasingly as children gets older, the self reaches higher levels of complexity. Self-awareness: a social structure which arises through social experiences (mead, : the feeling of being distinct from other people and possessing: existential aspect continuity over time. Self-permanence: the child"s understanding that they will always exist (i. e. , when the child goes to sleep at night, he will wake up) Visual recognition of oneself: i. e. , recognizing yourself in the mirror or. : refers to children"s ability to define themselves in terms of picture: categorical aspect objective categories. I. e. , boy or girl, age (1 or 2)
