self & personality - psych 200 (module 4)

define personality

organised combination of attributes, motives, values and behaivour unique to each individual

“i am kind and an introvert”

define self concept

how you percieve your positive or negative attributes and traits

your own perception of self may not be accurate

“what am I”

define self-esteem

your evaluation of your self worth based on all you self perceptions that make up your self concept

“how good I am”

what are the five factors that make up our personality?

biology

narrative identities

disposition traits

charaterisitc adaptions

nature, culture and context

in the emergence of self, by 6 months infants can…

distingush themselves from the rest of the world

describe a study done by bahrick & watson (1985) for the emergence of self in 6 month olds:

leg kicking study

first tv = the baby

second tv = different baby (same pants)

second tv baby was kicking legs when real baby was not

infants looked longer at the unexpected tv (other baby kicking)

in the emergence of self, by 12 months infants can…

distinguish themselves from other individuals and realise other perspectives and that attention can be shared

at 12 months what are two things infants do when they realise attention can be shared? (emergence of self)

joint attention - tries to get other person’s attention to what they are looking at

pointing - infant realises they can point and other person will look in that direction and vise versa

in the emergence of self, by 18-24 months infants can…

recognise themselves as individuals