Students enrolled in Social Psychology kept application journals, in which they applied course concepts to their daily social experiences. A content analysis of the entries revealed evidence of the acquisition of 12 possible farms of self-knowledge, defined by applying each of 4 cognitive operations (labeling, explaining, educing consequences, and self-assessing) to each of 3 different aspects of the self (thoughts, feelings, and actions). This analysis provides instructors with a framework for assessing various dimensions of an important component of student psychosocial development: understanding the self.
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