PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Moral Realism, Immanence, Moral Relativism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3105
• Professor: David Collins

Document Summary

Ch 8 process by which children come to take on specific gender roles is referred to as gender typing. William james (1890) self has two contrasting sides. I processes that allow us to think and know about ourselves; idea: me sum total of what a person knows or believes about themselves (who am i); object. Increase stress on understanding the self as an executive function. Linked to aggression, antisocial behaviour, and risk for depression: target sources of low self-esteem with social tools. Identity crisis in adolescence equated with exploration. Identity achievement establishing a clear and definite sense of who you are and how you fit into the world around you. Identity confusion failure to form a stable and secure identity: achieving identity involve sexploration sifting through life choices, trying out possibilities, and ultimately making commitments, key areas love, work, and ideology (beliefs and values)