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• Western Thought


  Focus on oneself and personal need
• Eastern Thought


  Focuses less on individual basis but more of group basis
• Western Thought


  • Individualistic (self)
  • More of acquisition of material things
  • Obsessed with being successful
• Eastern Thought


  • Collectivistic (others)
  • Tilted towards less assets
  • Inclined towards long life
  • Fortune and luck
  • Wisdom of years and seniority
  • Concept of reincarnation
• Culture


  • Has a significant impact on how we feel about ourselves and the manner in which we think about our body
  • Depending on the culture and overall emphasis of traditions involved, a person may find his surroundings either conducive or resistant to the building of a healthy body image and self-esteem
• Self-Esteem


  • The evaluative or affective consequence of one's self-concept
  • The extent to which one feels positive or negative about one's self-concept
  • "How I feel about who I am"
• Beauty standards


  • Africa - Overweight women seen as sign of wealth and fertility
  • Brazil - Women want to appear fit and toned
  • Asia and Africa - Skin lightening popular
  • Western countries - Tan symbolizes wealth
• Beauty (in art)


  An interaction between line, color, texture, sound, shape, motion, and size that is pleasing to the senses
• Psychosexual stages of development

  • Oral stage (Ages 0-1)
  • Anal stage (Ages 1-3)
  • Phallic stage (Ages 3-6)
  • Latency stage (Ages 6-Puberty)
  • Genital stage (Ages 12+ Puberty-on)
• Male reproductive system


  • Penis
  • Scrotum
  • Testicles
  • Epididymis
  • Vas deferens
  • Urethra
  • Seminal vesicles
  • Prostate gland
• Female reproductive system


  • Bartholin's glands
  • Clitoris
  • Vagina
  • Uterus
  • Ovaries
  • Fallopian tubes
• Erogenous zones


  Parts of the body that are particularly sensitive to touch, pressure and vibration which contributes to sexual arousal
• Phases of sexual response

  • Arousal
  • Plateau
  • Orgasm
  • Resolution
• Diversity of sexual behavior

  • Heterosexuality
  • Homosexuality
  • Bisexuality
  • Pansexuality
  • Transsexuality
  • Transgenderism
• Methods of contraception


  • Natural contraception
  • Artificial contraception
• Material self


  The total of all of the tangible things you own: your possessions, your home, your body
• Self (William James)


  • The "I" is the thinking, acting, and feeling self
  • The "me" is the physical characteristics as well as psychological capabilities that makes who you are
• Contraception


  Type of birth control that prevent conception in women
• Natural contraception


  • Depend on observations of woman's body through monitoring and recording different fertility signals during menstrual cycle
• Artificial contraception


  • Diverse method of contraception used to prevent conception in women
• Material self


  Total of all the tangible things you own: your possessions, your home, your body
• Bodily self


  Part of the material self that refers to the body
• Extracorporeal self


  Part of the material self that refers to possessions, home, etc. outside the body
• Components of material self

  • Body
  • Clothes
  • Immediate family
  • Home
• Investment


  The degree to which collections become part of the self
• We are what we have and what we possess
• Spiritual self


  The innermost workings of the person's mind, behavior, beliefs, and even morals that involves every aspect of the human as a person
• Manifestation of spiritual self

  • Person's will
  • Intelligence and abilities
  • Morals
  • Values
• Spirituality


  A certain way of being, not a particular practice
• Religion


  An organized system of ideas about spiritual reality, or the supernatural, along with associated beliefs and ceremonial practices
• Characteristics of religion


  • Belief in supernatural being
  • Focus on the sacred supernatural
  • Performance of ritual activities involving sacred objects
• Ritual


  The performance of ceremonial acts prescribed by a tradition or sacred law
• Logotherapy


  Finding the meaning in life, knowing our purpose
• Tim Berners-Lee made the world wide web available to the public
• Facts about internet usage

  • Almost two-thirds of the world's population now has a mobile phone
  • More than half of the world's web traffic now comes from mobile phones
  • More than half of all mobile connections around the world are now broadband
  • More than one in five of the world's population shopped online in the past 30 days
• Identity


  The categories people use to specify who they are - that is to locate themselves relative to other people
• Online identity


  The sum of all our characteristics and our interactions
• Types of self-presentation


  • Pleasing audience
  • Self-construction
• Domains of the self

  • Actual self
  • Ideal self
  • Ought self