PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: London Stock Exchange Group, Standard Deviation, Physical Attractiveness
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Self-concept: the set of ideas and inferences that you hold about yourself, including your traits, social roles, schemas, and relationships. How does the self-concept develop: we aren"t born with a self, we develop a sense of self out of physical development and cognitive maturation along with social experiences, chimpanzees and self-recognition. Gordon gallup, 1977 put a full-length mirror in a room with a chimpanzee to see its response. Red paint was placed on the eyebrow ridge of the chimp and the mirror returned, the chimp spent more than 25% more time touching itself, twice as much time touching eyebrows than ears. Suggesting that self-recognition must have been learned during the earlier experience with the mirror. Chimps who are taken from their mothers at birth and raised in isolation are unable to recognize themselves, never adapt to reflection in mirror. Self-recognition is one step towards self-concept development.
