PSYC21H3 Chapter Notes -Identity Formation, Pragmatics, Prosocial Behavior
Document Summary
Ch6: self and other: getting to know me, getting to know you. Three areas of development: understanding self, understanding others, communicating with others. Individual self: aspects of the self that makes a person unique, eg: a person may see himself as hardworking, physically fit, confident. Relational self: aspects of the self that involve connections to other ppl and develop social interactions. Eg: child in relation to other ppl such as parents, siblings. Collective self: person"s concept of self within a group, eg: group based on race, ethnicity or gender. Online self and genomic relatively recent form of self-representation. 2 yr olds: all children giggle and show embarrassment clearly exhibiting self-recognition. Difficulty developing a sense of self: autistic children: autistic children are less proficient in understanding emotions they are poor at self-recognition and show delays in the self-recognition experiment they do not recognize themselves in the mirror self-perceptions.
