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I-self (and when it develops)

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Ability to think about ourselves. Around 3 months

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Me-self (and when it develops)

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Sum of what a person knows/believes about themselves. Can include other’s opinions. Around 15 months

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Preschool self concept

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Understand what “I” means and that anyone can be an “I”

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How do preschool kids describe themselves

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Tangible activities/preferences/ characteristics

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How of middle-late childhood kids describe themselves?

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Use emotions, comparison to others, more realistic

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How do adolescents describe themselves

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Complex, abstract, integrated

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How does cognitive development interact with self concept (2)

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  • Increased ability to think logically/abstractly allows for more realistic description of self
  • Need ability to understand multiple POVs to synthesize single concept
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Looking glass self

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Learn to know ourselves by interacting with others and observing and interpreting their responses to us

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Generalized “other”

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Extract general sense of others/what they think of us from summary of ways people have responded to us

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Adolescent egocentrism

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Think about own thoughts, consider others may be thinking about them. Leads to either self-absorption or self consciousness, which leads to egocentric thinking

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Imaginary audience

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Belief that everyone is watching/judging them all the time

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Personal fable

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Belief that one’s thoughts/feelings/ experiences are unique (misinterpretation of new experiences being new to the human species cause teenagers are dramatic)

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Illusion of invulnerability

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Belief in uniqueness (misfortune only happens to others I’ll be fine)

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What did Erikson focus on when talking about identity crisis

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Unconscious identification with parents’ personalities/beliefs/ views of self/values

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James Marcia 4 types of identity outcomes

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Identity achievement, identity foreclosure, identity moratorium, identity diffusion

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Ethnocultural identity

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People from similar cultural backgrounds show similar patterns of attitudes and behaviours

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How do adolescents from minority culture see relationships

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in terms of who belongs to higher status groups

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How can being an adolescent in minority culture impact possible self

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Everyone in higher power positions is usually majority group

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Why does being bicultural give you the best developmental outcomes>

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Identify with both cultures -> sense of belonging

20
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What is the average Canadian youth’s score on the Rosenburg scale of SE

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29

21
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What is most influential on adolescent self esteem

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Appearance

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What is the pattern of self-esteem levels?

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Preschool: Highest
Elementary: Initial drop and then stabilizes
High school: drops again and then stabilizes

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Why are African and Hispanic children lowest in SE in elementary but highest in high school?

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They complete their bicultural identities and take pride in their cultural identities

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3 sources of self-esteem

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Actual competence, hereditary, other’s evaluations

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How did types of praise impact subsequent harder math scores?

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Intelligence based praise -> worse performance (became pressure), effort based praise ->tried more questions because they had confidence

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What are children with low self esteem at risk of developing?

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depression

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How does low SE impact socialization

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Withdraw from social activities -> less practice -> more isolated

29
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What 2 factors create a negative cycle between socializing and low SE

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  • less practice -> more isolation
  • internalize low self worth after neg social encounters
30
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What are Selman’s 5 stages?

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  1. Undifferentiated
  2. Social-informational
  3. Self-reflective
  4. Third person
  5. Societal
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Undifferentiated stage

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confusion between own thoughts/feelings and those of others (3-6 yrs)

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Social information stage

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Understanding others can have different thoughts/knowledge (4-9 yr)

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Self-reflective stage

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Ability to view things from other people’s perspectives (7-12)

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Third person stage

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View immediate situation from third party perspective (10-15 yrs)

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Societal stage

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Recognition that broader personal/social/ cultural aspects influence perspective of self and others (14+ yrs)

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Children with what features will be better at perspective-taking

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Language skills and greater cognitive ability

37
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How does descriptions of others evolve?

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Concrete descriptions -> observable psychological traits -> abstract traits

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