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A school-age child who is helping his father wash the car is told by his father that he is leaving ""streaks all over the windows."" The child feels his father thinks he’s stupid for not being able to wash windows correctly. This incorporation of ""being stupid"" into the child’s self-concept illustrates an example of

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Answer: Looking-glass self

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Among these lines above, there's a narration which best fits the looking-glass self theory developed by the American sociologist Charles Horton Cooley.

In his work, Cooley states that an individual's self perception is born from other people's view of themselves. Social interaction represents a major role in this psychological theory. Of course, the way these judgments impacts different people depends on who is the one making those statements. For example, receveing a negative comment from a friend or a parent it's not the same as receveing it from a non loved one.

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