Introduction to self and society

Question 1

foundational schema that recruits and organizes a person’s cognition, emotion, motivation, body, and behavior
(Markus & Kitayama, 2010)

Answer 1

Self (“I”)

Question 2

is a psychological reality, pertains to how you think and believe you are (personal responses to what the society thinks of you)

Answer 2

Self “I”

Question 3

Carl Rogers (3 Important aspect of the Self)

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Self-image
Self-esteem
Ideal self

Question 4

How an individual sees himself/herself that determines success on relationships and one’s sense of general well being

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Self-Image (Self fulfilling prophecy)

Question 5

the extent to which a person likes, values, approves of, and accept himself or herself. The evaluation of who you are

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Self-esteem

Question 6

all the attributes that a person aspires to possess. The person you want to be

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Ideal self

Question 7

A wide gap between your self-image and ideal self results in _____________.

Answer 7

incongruence (manifestation of unhealthy personality)

Question 8

The search for ourselves is rarely a lonely task. It is a social activity

Answer 8

HHEHE

Question 9

Structured relations and institutions among a large community of people which cannot be reduced to a simple aggregation of individuals (Giddens and Sutton, 2017)

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Society

Question 10

3 stages of how we develop who we are (George Herbert Mead)

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Preparatory Stage
Play Stage
Game Stage

Question 11

children lack to take on the perspective of others (egocentrism). children interact with others through imitation

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Preparatory Stage

Question 12

children become more aware of the importance of social relationships and as a result they engage in pretend play and are more focused on role-taking

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Play Stage

Question 13

mentally assuming the perspective of another person, and acting based on their pov

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Role-taking

Question 14

children can understand the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of the generalized other; can understand the idea of multiple roles; and realized that they are influenced by the perceptions of their significant others

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Game stage

Question 15

The term used when the emphasis is on how our significant others influence us (markus kitayama, 2010)

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Identity (“Me”)

Question 16

belief of how the generalized others sees use (Mead, 1934)

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Identity

Question 17

2 Major ways of understanding the self

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Social Constructionism and Essentialism (Polar Ends)

Question 18

posits that who we are is a product of a finite number of characteristics that makes us who we are

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Essentialism

Question 19

holds that who we are is actively constructed through our interactions with others in a social world

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Social Constructionism

Question 20

Different perspectives of looking at the self

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Biological
Evolutionary
Psyschoanalytic
Behavioral
Sociocultural
Agentic

Question 21

An approach, a way of looking at the self

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perspective

Question 22

Why multiple perspectives?

Answer 22

• No perspective is completely comprehensive
• Understanding the self is best served by the proliferation of different perspectives
• The different perspectives gives us hope to arrive at an approximation of what is there.

Question 23

an orientation toward understanding the biological mechanism that underlie who and what we are as individuals

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Biological Perspective

Question 24

something that is like a rossary it is full of mystery

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HAHAHA (life)

Question 25

an energy derived from the interaction of biological compounds in aqueous solution

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Life

Question 26

an orientation toward understanding the self in terms of unconscious motives stemming form sexual and aggressive impulses

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Psychoanalytic Perspective

Question 27

emphasized the role of the unconscious, early childhood experiences, and intrapsychic conflict in explaining the development of the self

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Psychoanalytic perspective

Question 28

an orientation toward understanding the self in terms of conditioning and reinforcement

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Behavioral Perspective

Question 29

highlights the invaluable role of experience and learning int he development of the self

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Behavioral Perspective

Question 30

According to John Locke, the mind is a ___________

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tabula rasa

Question 31

underscores the role of socialization in self formation and development

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Sociocultural Perspective

Question 32

A lifelong process whereby a person learns the norms, values, beliefs, and behaviors of a society through stories and social narratives, social roles and identities, as well as through non-human objects

Answer 32

Socialization

Question 33

the intellectual and cultural climate or spirit of the times

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Zeitgeist (Time Spirit)

Question 34

Variations in characteristics that arises from the different causal factors to which each age group in the population is exposed as the environment and society change

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Cohort Effects

Question 35

suggests that self creation is possible through self-efficacy

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Agentic Perspective

Question 36

Is people's believe in their capabilities to exercise some measure of control over their lives and their functioning and environmental events

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Self-efficacy

Question 37

self creation is a project that could be balanced with the project of nationhoop

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Agentic Perspective

Question 38

highlights the adaptive mechanisms that allow survival and reproduction

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Evolutionary perspective