PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mirror Test, Philip Zimbardo, Stanford Prison Experiment

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

The self and the role of context lecture 12. Sociological perspecive: according to a sociological perspecive, we cannot form a sense of self or personal idenity without intense social contact with others. The self represents the sum total of percepions and feelings that an individual has of being a disinct, unique person a sense of who and what one is. Self-concept - the totality of our beliefs and feelings about ourselves. Four components of self-concept: the physical self ( i am tall. , the acive self ( i am good at badminton. , the social self ( i am nice to others. , the psychological self ( i believe in world peace. ) Self idenity our percepion about what kind of person we are: we gain informaion about the self largely through language, symbols, and interacion with others. The rouge test suggests that most human infants recognize their relecion as themselves at about a year and a half.