PSYC 325 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Social Comparison Theory
22 Sep 2016
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The origins of the self: to test which animals have a sense of self, human babies develop self-recognition at around 18 to 24 months, divided into me (known) and i (knower), me: b) i. Object of thinking (something that can be known and observed). Thinking subject that does the observing and describing. The self is me seen from the perspective of i : william james: i. Individuals have the capacity for being a thinking subject and the object of their thinking at the same time: three aspects of the self, self-knowledge: i. Our beliefs about who we are and how we formulate and organize this information: self-control: i. The way in which we make plans and execute decisions: self-esteem: i. The way we evaluate ourselves (whether we feel positively or negatively about ourselves). The contents of the self: self-schemas: recall schema: a)
