Psychological Perspective of the Self: Self or Selves?

Question 1

He told us that a man has many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their head.

Answer 1

William James (1890)

Question 2

Over two decades later, he told us that the concept of self loses its meaning if a person has multiple selves.

Answer 2

Roy Baumister (2010)

Question 3

The notion of having multiple self may be rooted on _________.

Answer 3

Gordon Allport’s Theory of Personality Traits

Question 4

Allport recognizes that some traits are more closely tied to the Proprium (one’s self) than others. (What are the three personality traits?)

Answer 4

CENTRAL TRAITS
SECONDARY TRAITS
CARDINAL TRAITS

Question 5

These traits are building blocks of your personality.

Answer 5

CENTRAL TRAITS

Question 6

These traits are the ones that aren’t quite so obvious, or so general, or so consistent. Preferences, attitudes, situational traits are all secondary.

Answer 6

SECONDARY TRAITS

Question 7

This concepts posits that we are conscious not only of a single experience but of a great many experiences at the same time.

Answer 7

Unity of Consciousness

Question 7

These are the traits that some people have which practically define their life. Relatively few people develop a cardinal trait. If they do, it tends to be late in life.

Answer 7

CARDINAL TRAITS

Question 8

He’s the Father of Transactional Analysis Model, who believes that every person’s personality has three parts called ego states and that people communicate to one another assuming roles of any of these ego states.

Answer 8

Eric Berne

Question 9

What are the three ego states according to Eric Berne?

Answer 9

PARENT
CHILD
ADULT

Question 10

Ingrained voice of authority, absorbed conditioning, learning, and attributes when we were young. (Taught)

Answer 10

PARENT

Question 10

Our internal reaction and feelings to external events. (Feel)

Answer 10

CHILD

Question 11

Our ability to think and determine actions for ourselves. (Thought)

Answer 11

ADULT

Question 12

Berne’s starting-point was that when two people encounter each other, one of them will speak to the other. This is called _________.

Answer 12

Transaction Stimulus

Question 13

What do we call the reaction from the other person?

Answer 13

Transaction response

Question 14

What do we call the person sending the Stimulus (message)?

Answer 14

Agent

Question 15

What do we call the person who responds?

Answer 15

Respondent

Question 16

It is the method of examining the transaction wherein, “I do something to you, and you do something back”

Answer 16

Transaction Analysis

Question 17

He proposed that the Self, despite being a unit, has three related but separable domains.

Answer 17

Greg Henrique

Question 18

According to Greg Henrique, what are the three domains of Self?

Answer 18

Experiential Self
Private Self
Public Self/ Persona

Question 19

Theatre of consciousness, first to experience its beingness, closely tied to memory.

Answer 19

Experiential Self

Question 20

The narrator or interpreter, tries to make sense of the experiences.

Answer 20

Private Self

Question 21

The image you project to the public. Interacts with the world and influences how others see you.

Answer 21

Public Self/ Persona

Question 22

He is a British psychoanalyst, who believes that Self is simply the person that is Me.

Answer 22

D.W. Winnicott

Question 23

What are the two types of Self, according to D.W Winnicott?

Answer 23

TRUE SELF
FALSE SELF

Question 24

Inner part of the self that is based on spontaneous authentic experience, the inner core of the self that encases the person that you truly are (both positive and negative).

Answer 24

TRUE SELF

Question 25

Build to defend the core from these realities and prevent it from any changes. It is a mask or a persona, a defense to protect the true self from a world felt to be unsafe.

Answer 25

FALSE SELFV