physical self Flashcards
According to Sanjay Singh, “the ??? refers to the body, a marvelous container and complex, finely timed machine with which people interface with the environment and fellow beings.”
physical body
According to ???, “the physical body refers to the body, a marvelous container and complex, finely timed machine with which people interface with the environment and fellow beings.”
Sanjay Singh
According to? The body is the primary source of sensations and is necessary for the development and maintenance of
one’s personality.
William James
According to? The physical body is the core of human experiences which contributes to the construction of the self and personality.
Sigmund Freud
According to? The core of a person’s existence is his/her physical body. Everything about a person can be attributed to his/her bodily functions, experiences, and interaction
with his/her environment.
Wilhelm Reich
According to? The physical changes happening to the body and the experiences that an individual goes can have an impact on his/her psychosocial development and personal identity.
Erik Erikson
According to? The physical body could not be separated from the psyche since it is an integral part of it.
Carl Gustav Jung
According to? The significance of the body in psychological functioning, and its role in managing and utilizing the bioenergy
B.F. Skinner
Two most debated views about beauty:
- Beauty is objective.
- Beauty is subjective
Philosophers for: beauty is objective (3)
- St. Augustine of Hippo
- Plato
- Aristotle
According to? Beauty is considered as pure manifestation of the good
Saint Augustine of Hippo
According to Saint Augustine, ??? is the supreme good, and the source of
all beings, and all of beauty.
God
Saint Augustine further examined the three negative forms of the absence of beauty:
(1) The absence of metaphysical beauty,
(2) The absence of moral beauty, and
(3) The absence of physical beauty.
According to? Beauty is a response to love and desire
Plato
According to? The concept of beauty exists in the world of Forms. Objects are beautiful because they are reflections of the idea of beauty that already exists in the realm of Forms.
Plato
According to? Beauty can exist independently of its perceiver, and being beautiful does not depend upon personal evaluation
Plato
According to? “to be beautiful, a living creature, and every whole made up of parts, must … present a certain order in its arrangement of parts”
Aristotle
According to Aristotle, beauty can be measured through 3 things:
order,
symmetry,
and definitiveness (mathematical
sciences).
The ???, formula of beauty which is a set of proportions found in nature and applied by man to all manner of visual culture.
Aristotle
Golden Ratio
Philosophers for: beauty is subjective (3)
- David Hume
- Immanuel Kant
- Francis Hutcheson
According to? “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind
perceives a different beauty.
David Hume
According to? “The judgment of taste is therefore not a judgment cognition, and is consequently not logical but aesthetical, by which we understand that whose determining ground can be no other than subjective.”
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant: Four distinguishing features of aesthetic judgment:
(a) disinterested,
(b) universal,
(c) necessary, and
(d) purposive without purpose or final without end.
According to? Beauty is purposive and pleasurable
Immanuel Kant
According to? “The perception of beauty does not depend on the external sense of sight; however, the internal sense of beauty operates as an internal or reflex sense. The same is the case with hearing: hearing music does not necessarily give the perception of harmony as it is distinct from the hearing.”
Francis Hutcheson
According to? Involvement of internal and external senses. If there is no internal sense of beauty, then there is no perception of it
Francis Hutcheson
It is an error in reasoning , evaluating,
or any other mental process that is
often a result of holding on to one’s
preference or beliefs regardless of
contrary information.
cognitive bias
Physical attractiveness stereotype
What is beautiful is also good.
halo effect
EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
- ??? is a function of the
genetic quality of an individual.
Beauty or attractiveness
EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
- Factors that influence attraction: (3)
symmetry,
averageness, and
sexually dimorphic traits
EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
- ??? has important social
consequences, for instance, people and animals
rely on external traits to attract mates.
Physical attractiveness
??? and ??? have been subjected to transformation, reflecting cultural values, norms, and historical context. Being a part of a cultural group plays an integral part of who people are.
beauty and body image
It refers to a person’s beliefs
about his or her own worth and
value.
self-esteem
It is often associated with one’s
self-confidence
self-esteem
It is the way one sees the physical
self and the thoughts and feelings
that result from that perception.
body image
According to? “Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself, When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.”
Zoe Kravitz
