The Self Flashcards
What is Personality?
organized sets of values, attributes, motives, and behavior unique to the individual
Self-concept definition
self-perception, esteem, and identity
psychosocial development stages
Infancy: Trust vs. Mistrust
Early Childhood: Autonomy vs. shame
School Age: Industry vs. inferiority
Adolescence: Identity vs. Confusion
Early adulthood: intimacy vs. isolation
Middle age: Generativity vs. stagnation
Old age: integrity vs. despair
Trait theory
ocean test: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism
Social Learning
A. Bandura rejects stages of development and believes that behavior is influenced by situation and environment.
How do infants experience self-development?
Rudimentary sense of self, evident in object interaction
8 mo: response to separation
18-20 mo: mirror recognition, 30 mo picture recognition
How do 3-4yo experience developing a sense of self?
Think about themselves in concrete characteristics, related to physical attributes and abilities, & psychological traits. In elementary school the engage in social comparison.
How do middle/late elementary school kids experience developing a sense of self?
Sense of self is integrated, comparison w/ others based on objective performance.
developing a sense of self in adolescence
self is experienced through abstract concepts, seen through context, identity vs. role, imaginary audience (personal fable)
Self-concept development in middle teens
crisis of self that occurs along puberty, emo crisis
self-concept in late adolescence and early adulthood
sense of self is integrated and defined by the self, not outside approval, we contain multitudes
midlife crisis
Questioning period, integrity vs. despair, life review, the more activities you do the happier you are
