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focuses on the representation of an individual based on his/her experiences.

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Psychology of self

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is one of the most heavily researched areas in social and personality psychology, where concepts are introduced that beyond our physical attributes, lies our psychological
identity.

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Self

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Self is one of the most heavily researched areas in

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social and personality psychology

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is a cognitive approach that focuses on the mental processes rather than observable behavior.

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Cognitive Construction

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this approach will assist individuals in assimilating new information to their existing knowledge and will enable to make appropriate modification to their existing intellectual framework to accommodate new information

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Cognitive Construction

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Cognitive Constructionis a cognitive approach that focuses on the ___________________________ rather than observable behavior

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mental processes

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Father of Scientific Psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt

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scientific methods in studying the “phenomenon of the consciousness” (Aguire, et al, 2011) , urged in further studies of the self and its role in human behavior

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Wilhelm Wundt

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William James’ classic distinction between ________________________________________ provides a useful scheme within which to view the many aspects of self functioning

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the self as knower (pure ego) and the self as known (empirical self)

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self as knower

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pure ego

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self as known

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empirical self

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“I”

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self as knower

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“Me”

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self as known

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William James suggested that “the total self of ‘Me’, being as it were duplex” is composed of

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“partly object and partly subject.”

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as pure ego suggested that this component of self is
consciousness itself

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“I”

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is one of the many things that the “I” may be conscious of

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“Me”

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Components of the “Me-Self”

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  • Spiritual Self
  • Social Self
  • Material Self
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consists of things that belong to us or that we belong to

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Material Self

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are some of what make up our material selves

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Things like family, clothes, our body, and money

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are who we are in a given social situation

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Social Self

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For __________________________ people change how they act depending on the social situation that they are in.

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William James

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believed that people had as many social selves as they
had social situations they participated in.

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William James

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is who we are at our core

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Spiritual Self

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is more concrete or permanent than the other two selves.

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Spiritual Self

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The spiritual self is our
subjective and most intimate self
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Aspects of an individual's spiritual self, include things like
his/her personality, core values, and conscience that do not typically change throughout a lifetime
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is a personality variable that represents the way people generally feel about themselves.
Global Self-esteem (a.k.a. Trait selfesteem)
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It is relatively enduring across time and situations.
Global Self-esteem (a.k.a. Trait selfesteem)
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is a decision people make about their worth as a person.
Global Self-esteem (a.k.a. Trait selfesteem)
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refers to temporary feelings or momentary emotional reactions to positive and negative events where we feel good or bad about ourselves during these situations or experiences.
State Self-esteem (a.k.a. Feelings of Self-worth)
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is focused on how people evaluate their various abilities and attributes
Domain Specific Self-Esteem (a.k.a. Self-evaluations)
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This is making distinctions or differentiation on how good or bad people are in specific physical attributes, abilities and personal characteristics.
Domain Specific Self-Esteem (a.k.a. Self-evaluations)
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rocked Psychology as the biggest breakthrough in understanding the psychological self
id, ego, superego functioning
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Karen Horney
Feminine Psychology/ Psychoanalytic Social Theory
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They believed that everyone experiences basic anxiety through which we experience conflict and strive to cope and employ tension reduction approaches.
Karen Horney
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Karen Horney believed that a person has an:
- ‘ideal self’, - actual self’ and the - ‘real self
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Because people feel inferior, an ____________________________ —an imaginary picture of the self as the possessor of unlimited powers and superlative qualities, is developed.
idealized self-image
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the person one is in everyday life, is often despised because it fails to fulfill the requirement of the idealized image.
actual self
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which is revealed only as a person begins to shed the various techniques developed to deal with basic anxiety and to find ways of resolving conflicts.
real self
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is not an entity but a ‘force’ that drives growth and self-realization
real self
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Person-Centered Theory
Carl Rogers
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Carl Rogers believed that a person has
Real Self (a.k.a. Self-concept) and Ideal Self
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includes all those aspects of one’s being and one’s experiences that are perceived in awareness (though not always accurately) by the individual
Real Self
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It is the part of ourselves where we feel, think, look and act involving our self-image.
Real Self
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revolves around goals and ambitions in life, is dynamic, the idealized image that we have developed over time.
Ideal Self
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A wide gap between the ideal self and real self indicates
incongruence and an unhealthy personality
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If the way I am (real self) is aligned with the way I want to be (ideal self), then I will feel a sense of
mental wellbeing or peace of mind.
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◦If the way I am (real self) is not aligned with how I want to be (ideal self), the incongruence, or lack of alignment, will result in
mental distress or anxiety.
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argues that having a flexible sense of self in different context is more socially adaptable than force oneself to stick to one- self concept.
◦Kenneth Gergen
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are the capacities we carry within us from multiple relationships. These are not ‘discovered’ but ‘created’ in our relationships with other people
Multiple Selves
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as strongly pointed out in Traditional Psychology emphasizes that well- being comes when our personality dynamics are congruent, cohesive and consistent.
Unified Selves
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distinguished what he called the “true self” from the “false self” in the human personality
Donald W. Winnicott
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as a based on a sense of being in the experiencing body
true self
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as a necessary defensive organization, a survival kit, a caretaker self, the means by which a threatened person has managed to survive
false self
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has a sense of integrity, of connected wholeness that harks to the early stage.
True Self
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is used when the person has to comply with external rules, such as being polite or otherwise following social codes.
False Self
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is functional, can be compliant but without the feeling that it has betrayed its true self.
Healthy False Self
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fits in but through a feeling of forced compliance rather than loving adaptation
Unhealthy False Self
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takes an agentic view of personality, meaning that humans have the capacity to exercise control over their own lives
Social Cognitive Theory
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People are _______________________________________________________________________________ and that they have the power to influence their own actions to produce consequences.
self-regulating, proactive, self- reflective, and self- organizing
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People are self-regulating, proactive, self- reflective, and self- organizing and that they have the ______________________________ their own actions to produce consequences.
power to influence
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is known as the executive function that allows for actions
agent self
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The agent self is known as the _____________________ that allows for actions.
executive function
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This is how we, as individuals, make choices and utilize our control in situations and actions.
agent self
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The agent self, resides over everything that involves
decision making, self-control, taking charge in situations, and actively responding.
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According to _________________________ , the core features of human agency are: ◦ intentionality (action that is performed intentionally) ◦ forethought (setting goals, anticipation of outcomes of actions, selection of behaviors to produce desired outcomes and avoiding undesirable ones) ◦ Self-reactiveness (monitoring progress toward fulfilling choices) ◦ Self- reflectiveness (examination of own functioning, evaluation of the effect of other people’s action on them)
Albert Bandura
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the core features of human agency are:
intentionality, forethought, Self-reactiveness, Self- reflectiveness
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action that is performed intentionally
intentionality
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setting goals, anticipation of outcomes of actions, selection of behaviors to produce desired outcomes and avoiding undesirable ones
forethought
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monitoring progress toward fulfilling choices
Self-reactiveness
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examination of own functioning, evaluation of the effect of other people’s action on them
Self- reflectiveness
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Self-Efficacy lies in the center of Bandura’s
Social Cognitive Theory
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It lies in the center of Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory
Self-Efficacy
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the measure of one’s ability to complete goals
Self-Efficacy
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often are eager to accept challenges because they believe they can overcome them
People with high self-efficacy
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may avoid challenges, or believe experiences are more challenging than they actually are.
low self-efficacy
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False Seleves can lean towards
narcisstic perosnality
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False Seleves, as investigated by ________________ can lean towards
Heinz Kohut
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the belief that they are capable of performing actions that will produce a desired effect
self-efficacy
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where concepts are introduced that beyond our physical attributes, lies our psychological identity
social and personality psychology
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scientific methods in studying the "phenomenon of consciousness"
Scientific Psychology
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urged in further studies of the self and its role in human behavior
Wilhelm Wundt
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provides a useful scheme within which to view the many aspects of self functioning
William Jame's self as knower (pure ego) and self as known (empirical self)
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the spitirual self is _______________ or _______________ than the other two selves
more concrete or permanent
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According to researchers ________________________________________________ Global self-esteem is a decision people make about their worth as a person
Crocker and Park, Crocker and Wolfe
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Global Self-esteem is also known as
Trai self-esteem
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State Self-esteem is also known as
Feelings of Self-worth
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Domain Specific Self-esteem is also known as
Self-evaluations
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Real Self is also known as
Self-concept
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it is u understood that a person is essentially connected with
selfhood and identity

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