PSYC 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Egocentrism, Identity Formation, Semantic Memory
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Five year old: fully acquire theory of mind --> find false belief problems very easily. Sometimes eyes are focused on the correct area while they say the incorrect answer. Adolescence superficial: 12-18ish years old, 2 major physiological changes --> puberty and increase and refinement of connections in the prefrontal cortex (responsible for judgement, reasoning and thinking, major psychological changes, self-esteem. Early childhood identity: you(cid:374)g (cid:272)hildre(cid:374) des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)e the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es , ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)al ter(cid:373)s al(cid:373)ost e(cid:454)(cid:272)lusi(cid:448)el(cid:455) (cid:894)(cid:271)ro(cid:449)(cid:374) hair, gree(cid:374) e(cid:455)es (cid:895) -> motivates them to try again and keep working at. Other kids and teachers might not be positive to the child: schools begin objective evaluations. Imaginary audience --> everything they do is being watched and judged by other people -- > also egocentrism --> think everyone is looking at them. -> parents are modeling their own self esteem behaviour to you: physical appearance and abilities which are dictated by biology. Identical twins self esteem correlates to a greater degree than non-twin siblings.
