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• CONCEPT OF SELF

  • WILLIAM JAMES
• CONCEPT OF SELF

  1. ME SELF
  2. I SELF
• I SELF

  • thinking self
  • it is cognitive
  • mirrors the soul and mind
  • pure ego
  • capture our focus and takes us mentally to seemingly more interesting thoughts in different time and places
• ME SELF

  • empirical
  • based on personal experiences
  • all personal experiences are acceptable to me self
  • connect with our reality in the present moment
• SUBDIVISIONS OF ME SELF

  1. MATERIAL SELF
  2. SOCIAL SELF
  3. SPIRITIUAL SELF
• MATERIAL SELF

  • what we possess depicts who we are
  • things that you want will define you
  • tangible objects, people or places that carry the designation "my" or "mine"
• How can we tell the entity of our self?

  • based on emotional investment
  • emotional attachment (connection)
• SUBDIVISION OF MATERIAL SELF

  • BODILY SELF - physical entity
  • EXTRACORPOREAL (beyond the body) - extended self; psychological ownership
• Self and Material Possession is Interconnected

  1. Possession serves as symbolic function
  2. Possessions also extend the self in time
  3. People emotional responses to their possessions also attest to their importance to self
• SOCIAL SELF

  • how we are regarded and recognized by others
  • we affiliate because we crave for recognition and status
  • RELATIONAL SELF - specific interpersonal relationships
• SPIRITUAL SELF

  • inner self
  • psychological self
  • evaluate others based on the standard of the society
• COMPONENTS OF SELF CONCEPT

  • CARL ROGERS
• SELF CONCEPT

  • how some think about, evaluate, or perceive themselves
  • to be aware of oneself is to have a concept of oneself
  • is our personal knowledge of who we are
  • includes our knowledge of how we behave
  • develops more rapidly during early childhood and adolescence
  • continues to form and change overtime as we learn about our selve
• THREE COMPONENTS

  • SELF-IMAGE
  • SELF-ESTEEM OR SELF-WORTH
  • IDEAL SELF
• SELF-IMAGE

  • the way we see ourselves
• SELF-ESTEEM OR SELF-WORTH

  • the value we place upon ourselves
• IDEAL SELF

  • the self we would like to be
• Self-image and Ideal Self are congruent

  • very difficult to achieve (SELF ACTUALIZATION)
• Self-image and Ideal Self are not congruent

  • leads to discrepancy
  • leads to internal confusion
  • COGNITIVE DISSONANCE - prevents the achievement of self-actualization
• AGE 2

  • children begin to different themselves from others
• AGE 3-4

  • children understand that they are separate and unique selves
  • child's self-image is largely descriptive, based mostly on physical characteristics or concrete details
• ABOUT 6

  • children can communicate what they want and needQs
  • starting to define themselves in terms of social groups
• AGE 7-11

  • begin to make social comparisons and consider how they're perceived by others
  • begin to describe themselves in terms of abilities and not just concrete details
  • they realize that their characteristics exists on a continuum
• AGE 12-13

  • pre-adolescent
  • a key period for self-concept
  • usually the basis for the self-concept for the remainder of one's life
  • influenced by success in areas they value and the responses of other valued to them
  • success and approval can contribute to greater self esteem and a stronger self-concept into adulthood
• LEVEL OF CONCIOUSNESS

  • SIGMUND FREUD
• Human personality is complex and has more than a single component.

  • It is composed of three elements:
  • ID
  • EGO
  • SUPEREGO
• CONSCIOUSNESS

  • awareness and understanding on what is happening on its surrounding
  • help better understand ID, EGO and SUPEREGO
• CONSCIOUS

  • includes our current thought; aware
• PRE/SUBCONSCIOUS

  • contains memories that are not part of the current thought but can be brought if needed
• UNCONSCIOUS

  • repressed thoughts; includes desire, impulses; unaware
• • freud believes that behavior and personality where derived from constant and unique interaction of conflict psychological forces that operate to our three levels of consciousness
• SIGMUND FREUD

  • unconscious is the most important part of the mind
  • primary source of human behavior
  • influences our feelings, behavior, and judgment
• PAST EXPERIENCES - are very powerful to manipulate our behavior
• FREUDIAN SLIP

  • mistaken speech
  • putting unconscious into the conscious
  • negative thoughts are in unconscious
• STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY

  • ID
  • EGO
  • SUPERGO
• ID

  • most primitive innate urges
  • sources of all psychic energy hence the ID is the primary component of personality
  • present from birth
  • entirely unconscious and includes instinctive and primitive behavior
  • driven by PLEASURE PRINCIPLES which strives for immediate gratification
  • disruptive behavior and socially unacceptable
• PRIMARY PROCESS THINKING

  • primary part of personality
  • used instead of acting on dangerous or unacceptable urges
  • it forms mental images to substitute for an urge to diffuse tension and anxiety
  • image can take the form of dream, hallucination, fantasy, or delusion
• EGO

  • develops from ID
  • ensure that the impulses of the ID can be expressed in an acceptable manner
  • functions in all levels of consciousness
  • responsible for dealing with reality
  • striving to satisfy ID"s desire in realistic and appropriate ways
  • satisfies through DELAYED GRATIFICATION
• SECONDARY PROCESS THINKING

  • ego tries to find an object in the real world that matches the mental image created by the ID"s primary process
• SUPEREGO

  • emerge around 5 years old
  • internalized moral standards
  • ideals we acquire from parents and society
  • provides guidelines for judgment