Psychology  Asserted that the broad developmental changes

• Scientific study of how people behave, think and observed across early childhood, later childhood
feel. and adolescence could be interpreted with a
• Everything that concerns human being is a Piagetian framework.
concern of psychology
Development of Self-Concept
• With psychology, you will understand how it is to
 Early Childhood
be “you”
o Describes the “self” in terms of concrete,
Cognitive
observable characteristics, such as
 Of, relating to, being, or involving conscious
physical attributes, material possessions,
intellectual activity
behaviors and preferences
 Middle to later childhood
Jean Piaget o Self is described in terms of trait like
 Swiss clinical psychologist constructs that would require the type of
 Known for work in Child hierarchical organizational skills
development characteristics of logical thought and
 “THEORY OF COGNITIVE development.
DEVELOPMENT”  Adolescence
o Development of o Emergence of more abstract self
Human Intelligence definitions
o Deals with nature of knowledge  Emerging Adult
o Cognitive development (according to o Have a vision of a “possible self”
Piaget) o “Age of Possibilities (Ammet,2004)
 Progressive reorganization of o Early emerging adult (17 to 22) – time of
mental processes resulting from “grand dreams”
biological maturation and o 28 to 33 – vision of possible self became
environmental experience more realistic.
 Center of Human organism
William James
Three Basic Components of Piaget’s Cognitive Theory
 “The art of being wise is
1. Schemas/Scheme knowing what to overlook”
o Groupings of similar action or thoughts  Psychologist, philosopher
o Building blocks of knowledge and University professor
o Mental organization that individuals use to  Father of American Psychology
understand environment& designate action  Wrote “The Principles of Psychology” (1890)
2. Adaptation  Gave one of the earliest self-theory psychological
o Involves child’s learning processes to meet analyses
situational demands  Self has two elements: I-self and Me-self
o Two processes used by individuals by his attempt  I-self
to adapt: o Pure ego and subjective self
o Assimilation- application of previous o The “self” that is aware of its own actions
concepts to new concepts o Four Features of I-self:
o Accommodation- happens when people  A sense of being the agent or
encounter completely new information or initiator of behavior
when an existing ideas are challenged  A sense of being unique
3. Stages of Cognitive Development  A sense of continuity
 A sense of awareness about
being aware
 Me-Self
o “Self” that is the object
o “self” that you can describe”
o Empirical Self
o Dimensions of Me-Self:
 Material
 Social
 Spiritual
Dr. Susan Harter
 Psychologist, author and
professor
 Detailed the emergence of
self-concept