PSYC 100 Study Guide - Prefrontal Cortex, Red, Perseveration
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When infants are born, their ability to reason about themselves as separate from those around them is extremely limited compared to what it will eventually become. Adolescents are often quite concerned with how they are perceived by others, sometimes experiencing an imaginary audience, where they feel they are being watched/judged causing feelings of self-consciousness and questions of self-concept. Also aware that different behaviours are appropriate in different contexts, which can be confusing for their sense of identity. Different cultures (individualist vs. collectivist) influence how you perceive yourself. The ability to reason about what other people might know or believe and how those beliefs and knowledge will relate to their actions. Usually arises in its most basic form around age 4 prior to this, children will often attribute knowledge to others that they have themselves but is not really accessible to the other person.
