PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ingratiation, 18 Months, Job Interview

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2110
• Professor: Mariusz Michal Zadrag

Document Summary

The concept of self and the self concept. Initially, chairs were reserved primarily for the nobility. Individual chairs replaced benches as seating for everyone well after the medieval period. Construction of the western individual self: the possibility for the personal privacy (as we understand it today) was introduced during the. Renaissance, with houses containing several rooms with private implements and belongings: every culture has a distinct concept of the self. In other words, the self does not have an existence apart from the society and history that constructed and now describes it. From a socio-historical point of view, the self is a cultural theory, or set of beliefs about the person. Self-awareness studies: gordon gallup"s (1970) chimp study: self-recognition in the mirror, human babies: self-recognition at 18 months to two years of age, self-awareness and self-concept combine to create a coherent sense of identity.