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Understanding the Self reviewer **Lesson 4: The self from the perspective of psychology** Psyche- Soul Psychology -- study of human behavior anf mental processes **4 goals of psychology** 1. Describe 2. Explain 3. Predict human behavior 4. Control Nature-Nurture controversy - Both in...

Understanding the Self reviewer **Lesson 4: The self from the perspective of psychology** Psyche- Soul Psychology -- study of human behavior anf mental processes **4 goals of psychology** 1. Describe 2. Explain 3. Predict human behavior 4. Control Nature-Nurture controversy - Both influence behavior **Nature** vs **Nurture** Genetically environment or social Inherited interactions **Carl Gustav Jung** - Father of analytical psychology - Theory that assumes that a certain phenomena or situation can/do influence the lives of everyone **Collective Unconscious** - Segment of ideas in the deepest unconscious mind that we're aware **Archetypes** - Unaware of the personality - Ancient or archaic images that derived from the collective conscious **Archetypes** 1. Persona - Mask that we show to the rest of the world 2. Shadow - Darkness and repression - Represents our bad qualities that we don't acknowledge 3. Anima - Irrational mood and feeling - Feminine side of men 4. Animus - Men have illogical opinion and irrational thinking - Masculine side of women 5. The great mother - Archetype of fertility and destruction 6. The wise old man - Wisdom and meaning - Symbolize pre - existing knowledge and mysteries in life 7. The hero archetype - Unconscious image of a person who conquers evil foe 8. Self - Highest form of archetype because it represents the wholeness and completeness of our self **William James** - Father of American psychology - Theory of self **I self (Pure Ego)** - Self that knows who we are and what we have done **Me self (empirical self)** - Separate object or individual that the person refers to when describing or discussing their personal experiences **3 components of Me self** 1. The material self - Things or objects that belongs to the person or entities a person belongs to 2. The social self - How we build and socialize with other people 3. The spiritual self - Highest form of self - State: At peace Other self in psychology **Global self** - Overall value that a person places upon himself - Summarizations of our experiences and lessons/learnings **Self -- Differentiation** - Murray Bowen - Process of freeing ourselves from our family's expectations **Real and Ideal self -- concepts** - Carl Rogers - Self - concept -- how a person thinks about or perceives themselves **Real self -- concept** - Information or perception the person has about himself **Ideal self -- concept** - Model version the person has of himself Self- discrepancy theory - Comparing ideal self to actual self **Ideal self** - Personality, traits, attributes you would like to posses **Actual self** - Personality, traits, or attributes we believe we posses **Ought self** - Personality, traits, or attributes you believe you SHOULD posses **True and false selves** - Donald Woods Winnicott **True self** - Sense of being active - Spontaneous moods and emotions /feelings that are unforced **False self** - Persona - Mask of our behavior - To comply with people's expectations **Self as proactive/agentic** - Albert Bandura **Social cognitive theory** - Learn from acquiring knowledge/observational learning - Knowledge acquisition comes from our experiences and social interactions Bobo dolls - Session with plain white doll **Modelling** - Adding and subtracting behaviors **Self- efficacy** - Believes that he is capable of performing certain behaviors that can produce desired outcomes **Feature of human agency** 1. Intentionality - Performed by the person intentionally or with full awareness 2. Forethought - Person's anticipation of likely outcomes of his behavior 3. Self -- reactiveness - Motivated and regulates his behavior as he observes his progress in achieving his goals 4. Self -- reflectiveness - Looking inward and evaluating his motivations, values and life goals **Self- regulation** -Monitor our behavior, judge our behavior to reflect our behavior **Lesson 5: the self in the western and eastern thought** **Individualism --** Independent **Collectivism --** inuuna ang primary of the group **Ecological self --** hindi lang tao ang pinapahalagahan but also the non - human environment **Confucius** - Chinese philosopher and politician **Confucianism** - Ethical principle/ethical philosophy - Center to our *Ren* *Ren* - Wholeness of our humanity, human goodness and love 3 Facets 1. **Li** - Ritual/proper conduct - Shapes our individual character and socil harmony 2. **Xiao** - Virtue of respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors - Key aspect: obedience 3. **Yi** - Justice, righteousness and meaning - Our internal moral compass - Decides if what we do is right or wrong ***Don\'t do unto others what you don\'t want done unto you.***