PSY 3105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Attachment Theory, Margaret Mead, Infant Mortality
9 Nov 2016
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As adolescents age, they develop changes in self-esteem, self-conception, emotional understanding, and identity. The culture you live in also has to do with how you age, depending on socialization in individualistic and collectivistic cultures. Individualistic cultures tend to promote an independent self and positive self-confidence. You need to think of yourself before you think of others. Relies on family, ethnic group, religious group, etc. , and your individual needs come separate. Group harmony is the most important part of collectivist societies. Adolescents start to think of themselves as different than children. They have changes in self-understanding due to changes in cognitive functioning such as being able to think more abstractly. Susan carter looked at changes in self-conception from childhood to adolescence and found that children tend to define themselves in concrete terms; adolescents start to describe themselves in abstract terms and trait focused. E. g. , children define themselves as having a brother, or liking a specific color.
