Psychological Self

Question 1

Consists of things that belong to us or that we belong to. Things like family, clothes, our body, and money are some of what makes up our material selves.

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Material Self

Question 2

our social selves are who we are in a given social situation. For James, people change how they act depending on the social situation that they are in

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Social Self

Question 3

• is who we are at our core. The spiritual self is more concrete or permanent than the other two selves. The spiritual self is our subjective and most intimate self. 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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Spiritual Self

Question 4

There had been many postulations that one’s self may be fragmented into different parts and different selves which may be in conflict or needs regulation from each other.

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Global versus Differentiated Models

Question 5

(a.k.a. Trait self-esteem), is a personality variable that represents the way people generally feel about themselves. It is relatively enduring across time and situations.

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Global Self-esteem

Question 6

(a.k.a. Feelings of Self-Worth), refers to the temporary feelings or momentary emotional reactions to positive and negative events where we feel good or bad about ourselves during these situations or experiences.

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State Self-esteem

Question 7

(a.k.a. Self-Evaluations), is focused on how people evaluate their various abilities and attributes. This is making distinctions or differentiation on how good or bad people are in specific physical attributes, abilities and personal characteristics.

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Domain Specific Self-Esteem

Question 8

The self as the regulating center of an individual’s personality ad self processes under the guise of id, ego and superego functioning (Pajares & Schunck, 2002), rocked Psychology as the biggest breakthrough in understanding the psychological self.

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Real and Ideal Self Concepts

Question 9

with her Feminine Psychology, established that a person has an ‘ideal self, ‘actual self’ and the ‘real self’.

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Karen Horney

Question 10

with her Feminine Psychology, established that a person has an ‘ideal self, ‘actual self’ and the ‘real self’.

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Karen Horney

Question 11

an imaginary picture of the self as the processor of unlimited powers and superlative qualities, is developed

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idealized self-image

Question 12

the person one is in everyday life, is often despised because it fails to fulfill the requirement of the idealized image.

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actual-self

Question 13

which is revealed only as a person begins to shed the various techniques developed to deal with the basic anxiety and to find ways resolving conflicts.

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real-self

Question 14

according to K. Gergen, are the capacities we carry within us from multiple relationships. These are not ‘discovered’ but ‘created’ in our relationships with other people.

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Multiple Selves

Question 15

, as strongly pointed out in Traditional Psychology emphasizes that well-being comes when our personality dynamics are congruent, cohesive and consistent.

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Unified Selves

Question 16

distinguished what he called the “true self” from the “false self” in the human personality, considering the true self as based on a sense of being in the experiencing body and the false self as a necessary defensive organization, a survival kit, a caretaker self, the means by which threatened person has managed to survive (Klein, 1994).

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Donald W. Winnicott

Question 17

The agent self is known as the executive function that allows for action. This is how individuals, make choices and utilize our control in situations an actions

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Agent Self

Question 18

lies in the center of Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory. It is the measure of one’s ability to complete goals. People with high self-efficacy often are eager to accept challenges because they believe they can overcome them, while people with low self-efficacy may avoid challenges, or believe experiences are more challenging than they actually are.

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Self-Efficacy