GEC1: MIDTERM

• CU2 Title

  The Self from the Various Perspectives
• Socrates


  A Greek philosopher who is credited as one of the founding Fathers of Western Philosophy.
• Plato


  An Athenian philosopher, considered as a pivotal figure in the History of Ancient Greek and Western Philosophy.
• St. Augustine


  He was a Theologian and a great Philosopher. His writings influenced in the development of Western Philosophy and Western Christianity.
• Rene Descartes


  A French philosopher, mathematician and scientist. He is widely regarded as one of the Fathers of Modern Philosophy.
• John Locke


  An English philosopher and physician. He is widely respected as one of the most influential philosopher thinkers and known as the Father of Liberalism.
• David Hume


  A Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism and naturalism.
• Immanuel Kant


  A German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. He is one of the most influential thinkers of Western Philosophy.
• Gilbert Ryle


  A British philosopher. He is greatly known for his critique of Cartesian dualism.
• CU3 Title

  Social Self According to George Herbert Mead
• George Herbert Mead


  An American sociologist, he conceptualizes the mind as the individual importation of the social process.
• I


  self as subject
• Me


  self as object
• Self


  is the individual person, from his or her own perspective.
• Generalized Other


  the general notion that a person has regarding the common

  expectations of others within his or her social group
• Socialization


  The process of learning one’s culture and how to live within it.
• Community


  A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language,

  manners, tradition and law.
• CU4 Title


  The Self and Person in Contemporary Anthropology
• Anthropology


  is the study of what makes us human.
• CU5 Title


  Psychology and the Self as a Cognitive Construct
• Heinz Kohut


  an American psychologist, theorized that the self was bipolar, and was comprised of two systems of narcissistic perfection, one of which contained ambitions and the other of which contained ideals.
• C. G. Jung


  In Jungian theory, the Self is one of several archetypes. It signifies the coherent whole, unifying both the consciousness and unconscious mind of a person.
• Social constructivists claim that timely and sensitive intervention by adults when a child is on the edge of learning a new task could help children learn new tasks.
• Attachment theory


  focuses on open, intimate, emotionally meaningful relationships.
• The nativism versus empiricism debate focuses on the relationship between innateness

  and environmental influence in regard to any particular aspect of development.
• A nativist account of development would argue that the processes in question are innate, that is, they are specified by the organism’s genes. An empiricist perspective would argue that those processes are acquired in interaction with the environment.
• Archetype


  according to the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual’s unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity
• Cognitive


  the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective functions which deal with emotions
• Affective


  relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• CU6 Title


  Understanding The Self in Western and Oriental/Eastern Thoughts
• East


  The Ummah of Islam, the nation of the Jehovah, the Church of Christianity, the

  Sangha of Buddhism are some of these communities which their interests always come first,

  so the followers need sometimes even sacrifice themselves to protect it. In one word, "self"

  direction in the east is outward.
• West


  Their approach to the world was formed around a materialistic view with a rational realism that seeks the reality of the nature of everything by studying their attributes and properties. The

  human being was part of this world, the only difference about human was his cognition and

  awareness. The human is the only creature who can be studied by very him/herself. The

  journey of the western people into the depth of their most inner labyrinth of "self" started right

  here.
• CU7 Title


  Unpacking the Self: Physical Self
• Psychosexual


  Of or relating to the psychological aspect and aspects of sexuality.
• Psychosocial


  Having both psychological and social aspects.
• Morality


  Recognition of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of behaving in a manner intended to produce good results.
• Jean Piaget


  Cognitive Theory of Human Development
• Sigmund Freud


  Psycho-sexual Theory of Human Development
• Erik Erikson


  Psycho-social Theory of Human Development
• Lawrence Kohlberg 


  Moral Theory of Human Development