Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Egocentrism, Stupid Shit, Generation Gap

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Intellectual disability: facial abnormalities, small malformed brains, psychological and social impairment, attentional and perceptual deficits, poor social skills. Infants can distinguish their moms face after 72 hours. Infants look longer at a novel stimulus rather than a familiar one. Its fast in infancy and early childhood but it slows later in childhood: new synapses form and the old ones prune and are lost, motor development, tends to follow a regular stage-like sequence. Adolescents often overestimate the uniqueness of their feelings and experiences (personal fable: 2. Identity versus role confusion: pivotal crisis of adolescent personality development. Identity crisis (term erikson made) can be resolved positively leading to a stable sense of identity or can end negatively leading to confusion over ones identity and values. Influences the way we view concepts of self and idtentity. It can also be because of the psychological problems that the conflict is caused: more emphasis on peer friendships in canada and usa than in asia and.