PSYB10H3 : PSYB10 Lec 3
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The self: an individual consciousness of ones own identity. Your feelings, observations, and thoughts about how you perceive yourself. An awareness of the self as a distinct entity that is separate from others . You are not other people, there is something unique about you, you are not part of the environment like a tree or a rock. People that are unaware of self, think that when they are looking in the mirror they are looking at a second human. Paint is applied to infants cheek as they are asleep, then they are woken up and taken to another room with a mirror. Kid pointing to their own painted cheek, then they show self-awareness. Prior to one years old, kids are not self-aware www. notesolution. com. Orangutan successfully points to its own cheek, indicating self-awareness (we never thought this before up until the 1980s)
