MIDTERMS

• deals with the description, explanation, prediction and control of behaviour and connection of human behaviour to the study of the self will provide explanations for a clearer, better understanding of the individual

  Psychology
• Who proposed the Theory of the Self?

  William James
• What are the two parts of the self according to William James?

  Me self and I self
• also known as the empirical me; considered as a separate object

  Me self
• It is the self that knows and recognizes who they are and what they have done and also known as the thinking self.

  I self
• What are the three subparts of Me Self?

  • Material Self
  • Social Self
  • Spiritual Self
• consists of the things that belong to the person or entities that a person belongs to

  Material Self
• refers to who the person is in a particular situation

  Social Self
• refers to the self that is more concrete when compared to the material and social selves.

  Spiritual Self
• Who proposed the Family and Systemic Therapy?

  Murray Brown
• represents the over-all value that a person places upon himself.

  Global Self
• This has the ability to separate feelings and thoughts, and a balance should be maintained between “togetherness” and “individuality”.

  Differentiated Self
• Who proposed the Person-centered Theory

  Carl Rogers
• refers to all information and perception the person has about himself and answers the question “Who am I?

  Real Self
• Model version the person has of himself, and this is what the person aims for himself to be

  Ideal Self
• answers the question “Who do I want to be?"

  Ideal Self
• What are the two types of self

  • Real Self
  • Ideal Self
• Proposed the Multiple Selves Theory


  David Lester
• It suggests that there exists in the individual different aspects of the self, and a person should still make sense of the sometimes confusing and conflicting aspects of themselves and integrate them into a single, unified self

  Multiple Selves Theory
• Who proposed the True & False Selves?

  DW Winnicott
• seen as creative, spontaneously experiencing each day and characterized by high levels of awareness.

  False Self
• It lacks spontaneity and is dead and empty. Enables the person to form superficial but productive social relationships.

  True Self
• Proposed the Social Cognitive Theory

  Albert Bandura
• The person is seen as proactive and agentic.

  Social Cognitive Theory
• Features of Human Agency

  • Intentionality
  • Forethought
  • Self-reactiveness
  • Self-reflectiveness
• person has full awareness of his behaviour

  Intentionality
• the person’s anticipation of likely outcomes of his behaviour.

  Forethought
• the process in which the person is motivated and regulates his behaviour as he observes his progress in achieving his goals

  Self-reactiveness
• the person looking inward and evaluating his motivations, values, life goals and other people’s effect on him

  Self-reflectiveness
• allows the person to set goals that are better and higher than the former, challenging his capabilities and making him a wiser and self-actualized individual.

  Results in Self-regulation
• He argued that mind and body are one. All psychological processes are part of physical processes, and vice versa.

  Wilhelm Reich
• In general, the body performs its functions least well during?

  (1) infancy and (2) old age.
• DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL IS CAUSED BY 2 INTERACTING FORCES:

  Heredity (nature)

  Environment (nurture)
• The beginning of life begins at and the meeting of the female sex cell and the male sex cell.

  Fertilization
• The transmission of traits from parent to offspring.

  Heredity
• The traits are made up of specific informations embedded within one’s gene which is the basic unit of heredity

  Heredity
• The manifestation of traits can be attributed to the concepts of ____ and ______

  Genotype

  Phenotype
• specific information embedded within one’s genes

  Genotype
• the physical expression of a particular trait

  Phenotype
• The last pair of chromosomes is known as?

  sex chromosomes