Psychological Perspective of the Self: Self or Selves? Flashcards
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.
William James (1890)
Over two decades later, he told us that the concept of self loses its meaning if a person has multiple selves.
Roy Baumister (2010)
The notion of having multiple self may be rooted on _________.
Gordon Allport’s Theory of Personality Traits
Allport recognizes that some traits are more closely tied to the Proprium (one’s self) than others. (What are the three personality traits?)
CENTRAL TRAITS
SECONDARY TRAITS
CARDINAL TRAITS
These traits are building blocks of your personality.
CENTRAL TRAITS
These traits are the ones that aren’t quite so obvious, or so general, or so consistent. Preferences, attitudes, situational traits are all secondary.
SECONDARY TRAITS
This concepts posits that we are conscious not only of a single experience but of a great many experiences at the same time.
Unity of Consciousness
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.
CARDINAL TRAITS
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.
Eric Berne
What are the three ego states according to Eric Berne?
PARENT
CHILD
ADULT
Ingrained voice of authority, absorbed conditioning, learning, and attributes when we were young. (Taught)
PARENT
Our internal reaction and feelings to external events. (Feel)
CHILD
Our ability to think and determine actions for ourselves. (Thought)
ADULT
Berne’s starting-point was that when two people encounter each other, one of them will speak to the other. This is called _________.
Transaction Stimulus
What do we call the reaction from the other person?
Transaction response
What do we call the person sending the Stimulus (message)?
Agent
What do we call the person who responds?
Respondent
It is the method of examining the transaction wherein, “I do something to you, and you do something back”
Transaction Analysis
He proposed that the Self, despite being a unit, has three related but separable domains.
Greg Henrique
According to Greg Henrique, what are the three domains of Self?
Experiential Self
Private Self
Public Self/ Persona
Theatre of consciousness, first to experience its beingness, closely tied to memory.
Experiential Self
The narrator or interpreter, tries to make sense of the experiences.
Private Self
The image you project to the public. Interacts with the world and influences how others see you.
Public Self/ Persona
He is a British psychoanalyst, who believes that Self is simply the person that is Me.
D.W. Winnicott
What are the two types of Self, according to D.W Winnicott?
TRUE SELF
FALSE SELF
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).
TRUE SELF
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.
FALSE SELFV
