PSYCH211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Learned Helplessness, Devo, Relational Aggression
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Social comparisons judgments of their appearance, abilities, and behavior in. Perspective taking skills ability to infer what others are thinking and to relation to those of others. Cog devo affects the changing structure of self. The changing content of self-concept is a product of both cog capacities and feedback from others distinguish those viewpoints from ones own. Ideal self is used to evaluate the real self. Most preschoolers have really high self-esteem, however more negative feedback from others as school continues. During childhood and adolescence, physical appearance correlates most strongly with overall worth. Chinese score lower on self-esteem tests, most likely due to comparison to others ex. Congratulate children on attributions, ability, and effort characteristic they can improve by trying hard and can count on when faced with new challenges, focus on learning goals. Black ppl have higher self-esteems maybe because of warm extended families. Mastery oriented attributions crediting their successes to ability a. Learned helplessness attribute failures to ability.