SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mirror Test, Universal Windows Platform Apps

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: glav

Document Summary

Ages 3-5, children imitate the activities of others. Role-taking: kids instructed to go into a house with a bowl of candy and take only one piece of candy. In one trial there was a mirror, in the other trial there was not. They observed which children took more candy when the adult left the room. Symbolic interaction theory: the self is the individual viewed as both the source and the object of reflexive behaviour (reflecting back). The self is both active (the source that initiates reflexive behavior) and passive (the object toward whom reflexive behavior is directed: george h. mead: the active aspect of the self is labeled the i. The object of self- action is labeled the me: cooley: the looking glass self- people shape themselves based on what they think other people perceive ex. 3: the sense of the self comes after the sense of others.