THE SELF AND SELF-ACTUALIZATION

• Refers to organismic experiences of the individual; that is, it refers to the whole person conscious and unconscious physiological and cognitive

  Actualization tendency
• • It is a subset of the actualization tendency and is therefore not synonymous with it
  • It is a tendency to actualize the self as perceived in awareness

  Self actualization
• Aspects of one's being an experiences that an individual is consciously aware of

  Self concept
• Refers to the entire person including those aspects of existence beyond awareness

  Organismic self
• • The second subsystem of the self
  • Defined as one's view of self as one wishes to be

  Ideal self
• Perception of all discrepancies between organismic self, self concept, and ideal self

  Incongruence
• • 1st level of awareness
  • the experiences is on the unconscious

  Ignored or Denied

• • Either due to overwhelming and stimuli limited attention or the experience being uncomfortable in nature

  Denied
• • not acknowledge by the individual
  • things that are not sensed by our senses due to over stimulation
  • outside of the awareness of individual

  Ignored
• • The experience is non threatening and consistent with the self concept so we can incorporate into understanding of yourself
  • experiences and behavior that aligns to your self-concept
  • 2nd level of awareness

  Accurately symbolized
• • experience is not consistent with view of the self, thus reshape the experience so that it can be assimilated into our existing self-concept
  • 3rd level of awareness

  Distorted
• • when a person denies themselves to accept a praise or compliment, they distort the compliment to fit their self concept, which is someone who is undeserving of said compliment

  Denial of positive experiences