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• Self - totality of the individual
• Ideal Self - Self that you aspire to be
• Actual Self - The one that you actually see
• Self concept - Refers to your awareness of yourself
• Philosophical Perspective - Socrates, Plato, Descartes
• Physical - tangible aspect of ourselves
• Soul - intellectual and moral personality of humans
• Socratic dictum - knowing what is right is doing what is right
• Spirit - not fully coherent and harmonized because passions have no overarching guide
• Logic reason - fully harmonized and just
• Appetite - a desire that dominates the entire soul without limit
• Descartes - Idea of the Self

  Our mind held the essential components of who we are.
• Descartes - Within our minds, we hold consciousness, understandings and feelings
• Descartes Assumption - if you woukd be a real seeker after truth, is it necessary that at least once in your life you doubt? as far as possible, all things?
• Sociology - the study of human behavior that focuses on social groups, communities and culture
• Charles Cooley - people's self-understanding is constructed, by their perception of how others view them
• The Looking Glass Self - imagine, interpret, respond
• George Herbert Mead - From experience, we learn to interpret situations by taking on the role of the other
• Theory of Social Self - self is not inherited but it is developed over time from social experiences and activities
• Development of the Self - Preparatory, Play, Gaming
• Two sides of self - me and i
• Me - socialized aspect of the individual
• I - the present and future phase of the self
• Agents of Socialization - family, peer groups, mass media, religion
• There are various definitions of the self and other similar or interchangeable concepts in psychology
• Other concepts similar to self are identity and self-concept
• Identity - composed of personal characteristics, social roles, responsibilities, as well as affiliations that define who one is
• Self-concept - is what basically comes to your mind when you are asked about who you are
• Self identity and self concept are not fixed in one time frame
• Carl Rogers capture the idea and concept of self-eschema
• Self eschema - our organized system or collection of knowledge about who we are
• The idea of a healthy individual should have congruence between ideal self and real self
• Theories generally see the self and identity as mental constructs, created and recreated in memory
• Sigmund Freud - saw the self, its mental processes and one's behavior as the results of the interaction between id, ego, and superego
• ID - pleasure principle
• Ego - reality principle
• Superego - moral principle
• Three reasons why self and identity are social products - we do not create ourselves out of nothing. Society helped in creating the foundations of who we are.

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• Whether we like to admit or not, we actually need others to affirm and reinforce who we think we are

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• What we think is important to us may also have been influenced by what is important in our social or historical context

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