PSYC 2500H Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Comparison Theory, Learned Helplessness, Demography Of The United States
27 Nov 2017
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Psyc2500 development of the self and social cognition. Developed from adult-child conversation does this become inner speech, to identify who they are. Coming to an understanding that other people have different ways of understanding than yourself. We do not have one specific way of seeing ourselves depending on the role that we are placed in i. e. behaving differently when among friends and when among family. Younger the child the more congruent these concepts are. People have mental states that are not always accessible to others and that guide behaviour. Language; we think in language, we cognate in language. Social interaction; resolving conflict with siblings, moral issues, cultural influences. I-self sense of self as agent, separate from surrounding world, can control own thoughts and actions. Me-self sense of self as object of knowledge and evaluation, qualities that make self-unique (physical characteristics, material characteristics, social characteristics) Evaluation of one"s worth as a person, based off self-assessment.
