LEVELS OF SELF AWARENESS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY LIFE

GROUP MEMBERS : CHEW SOOK RUI SCHIARIELYNN VIVIEN PATRICK UNIT : PPISMP TESL 1( SEM 1,JUN 2010)

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capacity to become the object of ones own attention. The organism focuses on the internal environment. The organism is aware and awake of the surroundings.

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most fundamental issue in psychology from the angle of development. The developmental process revolves around children. Five levels of self awareness: Level 0 Confusion Level 1 Differentiation Level 2 Situation Level 3 Identification Level 4 Permanence Level 5 Self Consciousness/ Meta Self - Awareness

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general level in self - awareness Degree of zero self awareness Individual is unaware of his/ her surroundings Assumes as a plain extension of the world, not a reflection of it.

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individual is not aware of mirrors as reflection. Expression of ones individual self. The sense of what is assumed in the mirror is different from what is assumed in the environment. The differentiation between the experience of ones own body movements and the direct experience of other moving units in the world.

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individual is capable of exploring the interperceptual link between seen movements on the mirror surface and what is perceived of the own body proprioceptively. The individuals are a step ahead in the awareness of the matched surface characteristics of seen and felt bodily movements. They project what they feel form within the certain image No confusion as the individuals are fully aware that what is seen and observed on the mirror is special; to the person itself.

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begin to copy the projection of the tongue of an adult model pulling her tongue to the left and right. Infants are able to differentiate their own actions Infants in their second month, begin to correspond to the stimuli- smiling when playfully engaging in face to face interactions. Infants also begin to engage in protovonversations via taking turn, imitating people, affective mirroring and mutual monitoring. Infants begin to reach for objects that are within reachable distance

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individual is able to manifest recognition. Identified self is expressed when there is an identity relation between the inner self and the outer environment. Many refer to the reflection in the mirror as standing for identification.

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self is identified beyond the here and now of mirror experience Can be identified in movies and pictures taken in the past, where the self might be younger, at different location and different clothes. The identification of self is not bounded on temporal simultaneity, spatial concurrence of the body and the reflection of self either in videos or images.

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to Povinelli, delayed self recognition shows that children above the age of 3 get the grasp of chronological dimensions of self. The self pertains what is experienced in the past and now The self pertains what can be seen in a mirror now and in a movie tomorrow.

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self is recognized from both the first person point of view and third person point of view. Individuals are aware of what and how they are in the public eye. The public point of view is replicated for auxiliary evaluation which are delusion and devaluation. When a child demonstrates some understanding of object permanence, the child also demonstrates permanence in relation to the object.

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Expression

of embarrassment shown by children is the sign that they are aware of the public mind and how others perceive the child. Children tend to shy away from their reflection in the mirror. Process of imagining what others might think of us whether explicitly or implicitly is linked to the cognitive aptitude of understanding and reading ones mind. Involvement of phantasms and fantasy is the key in meta cognitive level of self awareness

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awareness in early life reveals the layers of processes that develop in us. Self awareness is not a single but multiple entity. Self awareness is like onions, layers after layers, just like us in the way that we act, perceive and think of this world. Self awareness will never wear off from everyone because we need it in everyday life. Only death will tear us apart from self awareness.