PSYC 3450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Parenting Styles, Trait Theory, Reference Group
23 Oct 2012
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Self: the combination of physical and psychological attributes that is unique to each person. Chapter 6: development of the self and social cognition. Looking glass self: the idea that a child s self-concept is largely determined by the ways other people respond to them. Social cognition: thinking that people display about the thoughts, feelings, motives and behaviours of themselves and other people. Self- concept: ones perception of one"s unique combination of attributes. Propreceptive feedback: sensory information that makes one able to locate their own body parts in space. Infants gain this capability as young as 1-3 months. Infants 2 months of age have a limited sense of personal agency which is the recognition that one can be the cause of an event(s) Ex: an infants feet are attached to strings, when the strings are moved a screen produces interesting audio and visual, the child will learn that when they move their feet these events are produced.
