PSYCH211 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Bsc Young Boys, Social Comparison Theory
16 Nov 2016
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Experiment: children were presented with 5 chocolate bars and told they have to divide them between two people; asked if they should give the extra chocolate bar to the other bar away. In another version of the experiment when they thought the experimenter didn"t know. What motivates their behaviour is other"s perception of them and not the innate. In middle childhood, children become better at strategies to appear fair older children. Start to talk about more stable attributes (cid:523)example: (cid:498)) like art(cid:499)(cid:524: this is something that you don"t see in early childhood. In middle childhood, children begin to describe themselves in less concrete terms will. Provides an example of children describing themselves. Preschool children are likely to describe themselves in terms of physical characteristics. You have to have an idea of self in order to manage your self-image describe themselves in psychological dimensions as well as social dimensions.
