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Self-Development
While growing, we want to see ourselves as distinctive, rational, and orderly entities with personal skills, preferences, and characteristics. We also come by a sense of being connected with others. This intriguing phenomenon considered both philosophical and behavioral but with the dawn of 21 century, neuroimaging technologies started appearing in efforts to explore how the human brain supports the endpoint of this long pathway to a heterogeneous self. This piece of writing is going to give you a clear view of the perspectives of human development.
Cognitive perspectives:
Cognition related aspects like self-recognition and agency have been explored in humans by using neuroimaging techniques. Autobiographical memory and direct self-appraisals play a vital role in cognitive development. Autobiographical memory is event specific and is based on the knowledge of different happenings while direct self-appraisals are general. This is unfortunate that there are no fMRI studies to study Autobiographical memory in kids.
Socioemotional perspectives:
“What people think about me?” is the statement that describes a direct instance of socioemotional influences on self-development. There is no doubt that the opinion of others about us is being hypothesized for decades. Charles Cooley asserted that our self-understanding is based on the view people…
