UTS Reviewer midterm part 4 Flashcards
a consistent pattern of feeling
and experience directly related to a
corresponding consistent pattern of
behavior.
Ego State
“But the concept of the self loses its
meaning if a person has multiple
selves. The essence of self involves
integration of diverse experiences
into a unity. In short, unity is one of
the defining features of selfhood and
identity.
Roy F. Baumeister (2010)
He proposed the Transactional Analysis: The 3 Ego state
Erik Berne
the spontaneous, emotive, creative, and
in-the-moment part of self
free/natural child ego
An ego state different than
the ego state which received
stimuli is the one that
responds
Crossed transactions
to describe a sense of self based
on spontaneous authentic experience and a
feeling of being alive
True self
Behavior, thoughts and feelings
replayed from childhood
Child Ego state
the theater of
consciousness and the first person
felt experience of being. It includes
the felt consistency of being across
periods of time. This is the part of
you that disappears when you enter
a deep sleep, flickers on and off as
you dream, and then comes back on
line as you wake up.
Experiential self
originally introduced the psychological concepts, true self and false self.
Donald Winnicottin 1960
such as honesty and sociability, are an
individual’s major characteristics;
they usually number from five to ten
in any one person.
Central Trait
Three related but separable domains:
Experiential self
Private Self consciousness or
“narrator” or “interpreter”
Public self or “persona”
the fundamental unit
of social intercourse
A transaction
Berne says that we can communicate on
two levels and define them first
The social message - what we say
The psychological message - what
we mean
refer to the different ways
that individuals interact with the
different situations and
circumstances in their lives.
Multiple selves
is a means of referring
to the “composite” persona, or to the
“self” that contains all of the other
persona that exist within a person’s
. Unified Self
According to ________ , “trait” is your
essential characteristic that never,
ever changes and sticks with you all
your life.
Allport
2 types of Child ego
free/natural child ego
Adapted child ego
the part of self
that makes emotional decisions
about self and the worlds based on
past and presentdrivers, injunctions,
biology, and environment
Adapted child ego
this is the portion of your being that
verbally narrates what is happening
and why and tries to make sense of
what is going on.
Private Self consciousness or
“narrator” or “interpreter”
With posture, facial
expressions and gestures
someone uses.
Body language (visual)
3 Element in interpersonal
communication
Words spoken (verbal)
Intonation (Vocal)
Body language (visual)
monitors, adherence to rules, shoulds and
musts, and expectations of self and
others. Largely automatic.
Critical Parent ego
Behavior, thoughts and feeling which
are direct responses to the here and
now.
- The planner, observer, organiser,
and analyzer
- The part of self that can think
logically and rationally and act
accordingly.
Adult Ego State
- That which is literally being
said. A part
of the verbal communication
in this and the intonation and
body language are both part
of the non-verbal
communication.
Words spoken (verbal)
are characteristics that affect behavior in
fewer situations and are less
influential than central or cardinal
traits
Secondary traits
a single characteristic that directs most of a
person’s activities.
Cardinal trait
2 types of Parent
Nurturing Parent ego
Critical Parent ego
Proposed a “personality trait” theory
asserting that every person
possesses “traits”
Gordon Allport’s Personality Theory
The response must go back
from the receiving ego state
to the sending ego state
Straight transactions
psychology professor studied the
importance of non-verbal communication.
He developed a communication model, in
which he demonstrated that only 7% of what
we communicated consists of the literal
content of the message. The use of one’s
voice such as tone, intonation and volume,
take up 38% and as much as 55% of
communication consists of body language.
Albert Mehrabian
views men as beings that develop mental attitudes that influence all their transactions. His mental attitudes he calls life positions; which is about I and You being Ok or not Ok
Transactional Analysis
a personality theory which gives us a picture of how
people are structured psychologically.
Transactional Analysis
another person will then say or do something
which is in some way related to the
stimulus.
transactional response
if two or more people encounter with each
other, sooner or later, one of them
will speak, or give some indication of
A transactional stimulus
Properly speaking, a man has as
many social selves as there are
individuals who recognize him and
carry and image of him in ther head.”
William James (1890)
Behaviors, thoughts and feelings
copied from parents or parent
figures
Parent Ego state
the process of analyzing personality in terms of ego states.
Structural analysis
will be experienced by a person
as a defensive facade, which in extreme
cases, could leave its holders lacking
spontaneity and feeling dead and empty,
behind a mere appearance of being real.
False self
Gordon Allport’s Personality Theory
Cardinal trait
Central Trait
Secondary traits
voice of unconditional acceptance, hope, and
optimism. The source of self
soothing and self recognition.
Nurturing Parent ego
How something is said (use
of voice)
- Intonation is the vocal factor
and body language
- The vocal factor
Intonation (Vocal)
It means that as human beings,
we’re responsible for our own lives.
We are the creative force of our own
lives. Our behavior is a function of
our decisions, not our conditions. It
is not what happens to us, but out
response to what happened to us
that hurt us
The Self as Proactive and Agentic
the final portion of the self.
It refers to the public image
that you may attempt to project
others, which in turn interacts with
how other people actually see you.
The crucial element of this portion of
the self.
Public self or “persona” -
He stated that let’s start with
a basic common sense response
and say that there is a single self.
He stated that our body can be
conceived of as an object and like
most normal sized objects. It exists
in one location in space and time
and in that sense it is singular.
Gregg Henriques (2014)
