PSY 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Concrete Category, Imaginary Audience, Egocentrism

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 335
• Professor: S. Sweeney

Document Summary

Social & emotional development in middle childhood (elementary) 10. 3 personality & emotional development 13. 1 theories of social & emotional development. What do we mean by a sense of self? / self concept/ development of self/identity. Refer to how someone thinking about themselves, include number di erent aspects about themselves, physical appearance, internal characteristics, social roles (daughter/sister/partner/relationship) The aspects we like/ we don"t like, evaluative piece of yourself. Existential self develops (2mo-1yr) infancy, babies realize they exist as separate entity from other people/mom/dad/primary attachment. Babies understand they are constant entity, they exist across time/across space. They can do things in response to others. Categorical self develops (1-4 yr) the child realize not only do they exist as separate entities, but also exist as an object in the world, they would understand object that they have property they can experience. Eg: dog has certain property: makes noise, moves around a lot.