PSYC 3450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Proprioception, Social Cognition, Personalism
11 Dec 2014
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Social cognition thinking that people display the thoughts, feelings, motives, and behaviours of themselves and other people. Development of the selfconcept: self-concept one"s perceptions of one"s unique combination of attributes. Selfrecognition: once infants know that they are (that they exist independent of other people and other objects), they are in a position to find out who, or what they are. The self in adolescence: you can often see inconsistencies in self-descriptions of adolescents, it is fairly typical for adolescents who are becoming more aware that they are not the same person in every situation. Western industrialized societies, and thus cannot be said to be universal. Selfesteem: the evaluative component of self: self-esteem one"s evaluation of one"s worth as a person based on an assessment of the qualities that make up the self-concept. Origins of selfesteem: bowlby"s working models theory predicts that securely attached children should soon begin to evaluate themselves more favourably than insecurely attached children, cultural influences.
