PS276 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Imaginary Audience, Personal Fable, Egocentrism
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Idealism/ na ve idealism : ability to envision an ideal world/situations, coupled with unrestrained belief that they can transform the world through their ideas/actions, self-absorption. Inability to differentiate between what is of concern to self- and others. People are looking at me in the halls because my outfit today is so stylish : egocentric (and erroneous) belief that one"s experiences are unique. You couldn"t possible understand : egocentric (and erroneous) belief that one is not subject to the rules or consequences that apply to others. Idealism (na ve idealism: self-consciousness (imaginary audience, feelings of uniqueness (personal fable) Psychometric theory of cognitive development: comparison: piaget/psychometric [respectively, cognitive abilities, qualitative changes/quantitative changes, similarities/individual differences. Intelligence is what the tests test (boring, 1923) The capacity of intelligence is what is not increasing. Sex differences: girls > boys in verbal ability (language, boys > girls in visual/spatial ability (math/science, difference due to social factors (attitude, interests, expectations) not ability.
