Chapter 5 Flashcards
Self-system
aspects related to the self, such as self-concept, self-regulation, self-esteem
I-Self/self-as-subject
- “I”
- Active agent or as the knower
- It is that part of the self that experiences a sense of subjective self-awareness
- The side of the self that experiences continuity over time
- Even though we all grow and change, we know we embody core elements of the same “self” throughout our lifetime.
- Recognizes the distinctiveness of the self as a person compared to other persons.
- Agency or is that part of the self that engages in self-directed activity, self-control, and contemplation of the “Me”
Me-Self/self-concept
- “Me”
- Part of the self that is the object of self or others’ observations, or the part that is known
- Includes all those attributes that are used to define the self and that make up the self-concept
- “Material self”, “Social self” and “Spiritual self”
- Material self: encompasses a person’s physical characteristics and material possessions
- Social self: includes her social standing, her reputation, and those personal characteristics that are recognized by others
- Spirtual self: the most precious, incorporates her qualities of character, beliefs, and personal values
Self-concept
a description of personal attibutes
Self-esteem
one’s evaluation of these attibutes, or th epositive or negative valence associated with those attributes
*Depends upon the number of successes we enjoy relative to our aspirations, or, in his terminology, pretensions
Valence
the affective value of a characteristic, either good, bad, or neutral
Pretensions
goals that we choose highly important to you to be poular and socially active
“Looking-glass self”
the process of self-development as one that originates from observing the reflected appraisals of others, primarily attachment figures
Initiative vs. Guilt (Erikson)
- During early childhood, children must discover who they are
- Identify strongly with parents
- Use their perceptual, motor, cognitive, and language skills to make things happen
- Discover that conscience must govern exploration
- Guilt can lower self-esteem
Self-system
Inclueds aspects related to the self, such as self-concept, self-regulation, and self-esteem
Pre-self
- composed of early inklings of the permanence of her body, its separateness from others, and the rhythms of interpersonal connections.
- Promote by the regularity and reliability of the caregiver
Representations of interactions (RIGs)
- “procedural” representations or schemata-preverbal, unconscious, and a kind of sensorimotor memory
- Patterns generalized from the repeititive nature of caregiver-infant interactions
Social referencing
- the baby’s adjustment of reactions depending on feedback provided by a caregiver- also implies recognition of the separateness of the other.
- Source of information for the self-system, providing the baby with context in which she begins to differentiate experience of the self from experience of the other and from the combined experience of the “we”
- Demonstrates how transactional the self-development process really is
- Uses the caregiver’s emotions to discern meaning in events and to intuit information about the self
self-recognition
*when they view themselves in a mirror
Is typically manifested by the observer’s display of self-directed behavior upon viewing her reflection
*Reasoning that self-directed behavior -> presence of objective self-awareness
*Is universally acquired late in the 2nd year of life
*Maturation of one cortical area- the juncture of the parietal and temporal lobes- is activated in adults during self-recognition tasks
*The timing of self-recognition shows some variability among children from different cultures.
*Caregivers’ descriptions can be neutral and objective or evaluative and subjective, and these appear not to be differentiated by young children according to their objectivity or subjectivity.
Maltreated children in self-recognition
- Maltreated children show considerably more negative or neutral affect when seeing their faces in the mirror than do non-maltreated children, who display more positive affect.
- Self-recognition-> formulate a conscious concept of self
- 2 years old: Language skills -> elaboration of the self-concept or “Me-self”
- When self-description begins, maltreated children use fewer words to describe their feelings than do non-maltreated children
Self-control/behavior regulation
- The child’s ability to stop herself from performing a proscribed act
- Ability to make herself perform an act that she may not feel much like doing
Self regulation
- ability to comply with a request, to initiate and cease activities according to situational demands, to modulate the intensity, frequency, and duration of verbal and motor acts in social and educational settings, to postpone acting upon a desired object or goal, and to generate socially approved behavior in the absence of external monitors.
- More advanced and flexible version of self-control
- Professionals regularly deal with problems involving self-regulation
- Formidable task for a mischievous toddler or even for a sophisticated high schooler
Self-conscious emotions
- shame, embarrassment, guilt, and pride take their place in the child’s emotional repertoire after objective self-awareness, or self-recognition
- Growth of emotions -> violations of standards for everyday behavior - late in 2nd year
- Require the ability to consider the self as separate from others and as the subject of others’ judgments
- Ages of 2-3, emotional responses to their wrongdoing and mistakes -> evaluate themselves in ways that they expect to be evaluated by others-> conscience development
- 18 months: a child might take notice of her rule violation but without any discernable emotional response.
- Child’s emotional responses to rule violations -> when she perceives her parents’ reactions might be -> shape her developing sense of morality
- Feeling of guilt -> Increase other-directed empathy, positive reparative action, constructive problem solving, low defensiveness and anger
- Shame-> hiding or denying wrongdoing, elevated levels of proinflammatory cytokines, heightened self-focus, balming other people or situations, displaced aggression, externalizing behavior, low self-esteem, and other psychiatric disorders
- Use of shaming as disciplining children -> anxiety disorders in a cross-cultural study
Emotion-coaching
Parents monitor their child’s emotions, view them as opportunities for teaching, and coach them in how to deal with emotions effectively
Emotion-dismissing
Parents view their role as to deny, ignore, or change negative emotions
Early Socialization: Parenting and the Development of the Self-System
- Caregivers are faced with the need to grant some autonomy to the child.
- Feelings of worth
- Experience self-sufficiency, or autonomy
- Caregiver must begin to socialize the child, that is, to prepare the child to be a competent member of society.
- Limiting some behaviors and demanding others-> child will be safe
- Learn the standards of her culture and behave in ways that are conventionally acceptable
- Socialization pressure requires discipline: when parents limit or demand behavior using techniques that either exert or require control
Warmth dimension (parental responsiveness)
- listening to the child, being involved and interested in the child’s activites, accepting the child, making positive attributions toward the child, being “tuned in” and supportive.
- Toddler- autonomy needs-> parents accept these needs, acquiescing when possible to their children’s resonable demands for autonomy