PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Identity Formation
4 Apr 2016
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Chapter thirteen: development of the self and social cogniion. Self: the combinaion of physical and psychological atributes that is unique to each individual. Self-concept: one"s percepions of their unique atributes or traits. Personal agency: recogniion that one can cause an event: infants under 2 months have a limited sense of this. Self-recogniion: the ability to recognize oneself in a mirror or photograph: usually emerges around 18-24 months, social experiences inluence iming. Present self: early self-representaion in which 2-3 year olds recognize current representaions of self but are unaware that past self-representaions or self-relevant events have implicaions for the present. Extended self: more mature self-representaion, emerging between 3-5 years, in which children are able to integrate past, current, and unknown future self-representaions into a noion of a self that endures over ime (self is stable over ime)
