PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE SELF Flashcards
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- has various ways of understanding a person and way of helping people understand themselves.
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Psychology
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- a reference by an individual to the same individual person. Having its own or single character as a person, is referring to a person as the same individual.
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Self
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- about either the cognitive (thinking pattern) and affective (feelings or emotions) representation of one’s identity or the subject of experience.
- The earliest formulation of the self in modern psychology forms the distinction between the self as I, the person knower, and the self as Me, the person that is known.
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Psychology of studying self
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- Introduced in his document The Principles of Psychology (1890) a numerous concepts and distinction of self.
- His main concepts of self are the “me-self” and the “I-self”
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William James’ Concepts of Self
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- Phenomenal self, the experienced self or the self as known.
- It is the self that has experience the phenomena and who had
known the situation
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Me-self
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The self-thought or the self- knower
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I-self
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The feeling and emotions they arouse
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Self-feelings
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- James had claimed that the understanding of Self can be separated into three
categories:
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Its constituents
Self-feelings
Self-seeking and self-preservation
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Sub categories of self
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Material self
Social self
Spiritual self
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The actions to which they prompt
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Self-seeking and self-preservation
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- constituted by our bodies, clothes, immediate family and home.
- It is in this that we attached more deeply into and therefore we are most affected by because of the investment we give to these things.
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Material self
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- based on our interactions with society and the reaction of people
towards us. - It is our social self that thought to have multiple divergence or different version of ourselves.
- It varies as to how we present ourselves to a particular social group.
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Social self
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- intimate self
- satisfying for the person that they have the ability to argue and discriminate one’s moral sensibility, conscience and indomitable will.
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Spiritual self
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- A person is said to be in a state of incongruence if some of the totality of their experience is unacceptable to them and is denied or distorted in the self-image.
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Incongruence
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He believed that for a person to achieve self-actualization they must be in a state of congruence.
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Carl Rogers
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- person to achieve self-actualization they must be
in a state of congruence. - Self-actualization occurs when a person’s “ideal self” (i.e., who they would like to be) is congruent with their actual behavior (self-image).
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Congruence
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- Carl Rogers, come up with his conception of self through the intervention he used for his client, the Person-centered therapy
- Rogers believe that people must be fully honest with themselves in order to have personal discovery on oneself. In this concept of self, he had come up with three sides of a triangle.
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Conception of self
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Three sides of a triangle
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Perceived self
Real self
Ideal self
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- Self worth - how the person sees self & others sees them
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Perceived self
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- Self Image – How the person really is
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Real self
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- How the person would
like to be
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Ideal self
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- Freud has argued that self has a multiple parts, he still believed that ultimately we are a Unified beings (At least, when we are healthy).
- He argued that mind is divided into three connected but distinct parts.
o Id
o Ego
o Super Ego
o Conscious
o Unconscious
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Psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud
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- Up to the self to define himself as warm or cold, dominant or submissive, sexy or plain
- Many potential selves
- _________ argued that having a flexible sense of self allows us how we bring ourselves in every situation that will held him get through for a day”. That therefore, maybe it is healthy to have many mask.
- Multiple self hood is part of what it means to be human, and forcing oneself to stick to one self-concept maybe unhealthy.
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Postmodern Psychology of Kenneth Gergens
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- Rooted from early infancy is called the simple being.
- The sense of self based on spontaneous authentic experience and feeling of being alive, having “real self”.
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True-self
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- Our defense facade.
- Overlaying or contradicting the original sense of self.
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Fake-self
