PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Record Linkage, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
31 May 2018
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APPROACHES TO SELF
• Descriptive component of the self
o Self concept
▪ Development of the self concept
• Infancy
o Self as distinct from world
▪ That’s e, that’s ot e
• Age 2-3
o Identify with own age/sex
▪ I am a girl/ I am 2
o Then with own fam
▪ I a soeoe’s sister
• Age 3-12
o Based on talents and skills
• Age 5-6
o Social comparison
▪ Am I faster, smarter, more popular than my friends
o Awareness of private self
▪ Mo does’t ko eerthig aout e
• Adolescence
o Perspective taking
▪ See oneself as others do
o Objective awareness
▪ See oneself as an object of others opinions
▪ Chronic objective awareness?
• Shyness (social anxiety)
o Fear of social
humiliation/embarrassment
o Social/performance situations yield
high anxiety
o Excessive fear
o Anxiety/distress causes impairment
• Treatment
o Cognitive behavioural therapy
▪ Self schemata
• Possible selves
o Who I might become
• Self guides
o Ought selves
▪ What others want me to be
o Undesired selves
▪ What I want to be
• Evaluative component of the self
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