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LEVELS OF SELF AWARENESS IN THE
DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY LIFE
GROUP MEMBERS : CHEW SOOK RUISCHIARIELYNN VIVIEN PATRICK
UNIT : PPISMP TESL 1( SEM 1,JUN 2010)
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The capacity to become the object ofones own attention.
The organism focuses on the
internal environment.The organism is aware and awake of
the surroundings.
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The most fundamental issue in psychologyfrom the angle of development.
The developmental process revolves aroundchildren.
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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The general level in self - awareness
Degree of zero self awareness
Individual is unaware of his/ hersurroundings
Assumes as a plain extension of the
world, not a reflection of it.
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The individual is not aware of mirrorsas reflection.
Expression of ones individual self.
The sense of what is assumed in themirror is different from what is assumedin the environment.
The differentiation between theexperience of ones own bodymovements and the direct experience ofother moving units in the world.
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The individual is capable of exploring theinterperceptual link between seen movements onthe mirror surface and what is perceived of theown body proprioceptively.
The individuals are a step ahead in the awarenessof the matched surface characteristics of seenand felt bodily movements.
They project what they feel form within thecertain image
No confusion as the individuals are fully awarethat what is seen and observed on the mirror isspecial; to the person itself.
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CONT
Toddlers begin to copy the projection of thetongue 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 whenplayfully engaging in face to faceinteractions.
Infants also begin to engage in
protovonversations via taking turn, imitatingpeople, affective mirroring and mutualmonitoring.
Infants begin to reach for objects that are
within reachable distance
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The individual is able to manifest
recognition.
Identified self is expressed whenthere 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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The self is identified beyond the here andnow of mirror experience
Can be identified in movies and pictures
taken in the past, where the self might beyounger, 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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CONT
According to Povinelli, delayed self
recognition shows that children above theage of 3 get the grasp of chronological
dimensions of self.
The self pertains what is experienced inthe past and now
The self pertains what can be seen in a
mirror now and in a movie tomorrow.
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The 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 arein 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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CONT
Expression of embarrassment shown by
children is the sign that they are aware of thepublic 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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Self awareness in early life reveals thelayers 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 offfrom everyone because we need it in
everyday life. Only death will tear us
apart from self awareness.
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