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John Locke

"Human mind at birth is a tabula rasa, which means that knowledge is derived from experience

Gilbert Ryle

"I act, therefore I am" Ryle asserted that the self is from our behaviors and actions.

Rene Descartes

"I think, therefore I am" Father of Modern Psychology According to him the self is constant; it is not prone to change, and is not affected by time.

David Hume

"all knowledge is derived from human senses"

St. Augustine

"all knowledge leads to God" He believed that the self was an inner, immaterial.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

"physical body is an important part of the self His perspective is human beings are embodied subjectivities, and that the understanding of the self should begin from this fundamental fact"

Paul Churchland

"the physical brain and not the imaginary mind gives us our sense of self"

Sigmund Freud

"wish fulfillment is the road to the unconsciousness"

The Real Self

(Self Image - how the person really is)

Perceived Self

(Self-worth-how the persons sees self & others sees them)

The Ideal Self

(how the person would like to be)

Exosystem

-Other people and places that the child herself may not interact with often herself but that still have a large effect on her.

The 5 Basic Goal of Psychology

1. OBSERVE BEHAVIOR AND DESCRIBE 2. EXPLAIN 3. PREDICT 4. GOAL 5. IMPROVE

3 Components of "Self-Concept"

1. Perceived Self 2. The Real Self 3. The Ideal Self

Urie Bronfenbrenner

American psychologist who is most known for his ecological systems theory.

The Four Subfields of Anthropology

Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology

Rituals

Are activities (may be religious or social) at participated in by a group of people for the fulfillment of desired objectives and are considered to be socially essential

Values

Are considered to be the core of every culture.

Albert Bandura

Canadian-born American psychologist and originator of social cognitive theory who is probably best known for his modeling study on aggression, referred to as the "Bobo doll" experiment

2 Aspects of Self

Explicit Perspective

Cultural Anthropology

Explores the diversity of past and present culture is described as a group of people's ways of life.

GEORGE HERBERT MEAD

He described the self as a 'dimension of personality that is made-up of the individual's self-awareness and self-image.

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

He stated that people learn who they are through their social interaction with other people.

George Herbert Mead

He was an American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists.

3 parts of the psyche/med

Id, Ego, Superego

Superego

Incorporates the values and morals of society.

Social Self

It is based on our interactions with society and the reaction of people towards us.

Material Self

It is constituted by our bodies, clothes, immediate family and home.

Spiritual Self

It is the most intimate because it is more satisfying for the person that they can argue and discriminate against one's moral sensibility, conscience and indomitable will.

Anthropology

It is the study of human societies and culture and development through time and space in the past and present.

Chronosystem

Life changes and transitions that will affect young people over time.

Sub Categories of Self

Material Self, Social Self, and Spiritual Self

The Ecological System Theory

Microsystem Mesosystem Exosystem Macrosystem Chronosystem

Erving Goffman

One of his popular work was The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life.

Heroes

Persons form the past or present who have characteristics that are important in culture

Mead's Three Stages of Self Information

Preparatory Stage Play Stage Game Stage

'logos'

Sociology is derived from the Greek word , which means the study of society

'socius'

Sociology is derived from the Latin word , which means the study of society

Plato

Socrates's prized student "Good actions give strength to ourselves and Inspire good actions in others"

Biological Anthropology

The biological aspect of man focus primarily on how human body adapts to the different earth environments

Mesosystem

The different parts of a child's microsystem work together for the sake of the child.

Macrosystem

The largest and most remote set of people and things to a child but which still has a great influence over the child.

Symbols

The words, gestures, pictures or objects that have a recognized/accepted meaning in a particular culture.

The word anthropology has two roots:

[anthrop-] and [ology].

Impression management

a process when people are concerned with controlling how others view them.

The looking-glass self. He believed that the process of developing a self has three phases:

a. people imagine how they present themselves to others, b. people imagine how others evaluate them, and c. people develop some sort of feeling about themselves as a result of those impressions.

Biological anthropologist

are interested in human evolution, from our origins and diversity in the past to our probable future as inhabitants of this planet.

Cultural anthropologists

are interested in knowing what makes one group's manner of living particular to that group and forms an essential part of the member's personal and social identity.

Artifacts

are tools and objects past people have made.

True Self

as rooted from early infancy is called the simple being

Explicit

aspect of the self that you are consciously aware

Play Stage

at this stage, children begin to role play and pretend to be other people.

Preparatory Stage

at this stage, children's behavior is primarily based on Imitation.

Socrates

believed that the real self is not the physical body, but rather the psyche (or soul). "I know that/don't know" The soul is immortal.

3 levels of consciousness

conscious, per-conscious, unconscious

Per-conscious

data that can readily be brought to consciousness

Conscious

deals with awareness of present perceptions, feelings, thought, memories and fantasies

Affective

generally refers to emotions, moods and feelings

Ontos (ideal)

he ultimate reality which tends to be permanent and spiritual

Linguistic Anthropology

interest focuses on using language as a means to discover a group's manner of social interaction and his worldview.

Perspective

is a particular way of viewing things that depends on one's experience and personality.

Psychoanalytic Theory

is a personality theory based on the notion that an individual gets motivated by unseen forces.

Anthropologist

is a scientist that focuses on understanding patterns of human behavior of a certain group in a given socio-cultural

Archeologist

is a scientist who studies artifacts in order to discover how these people lived their lives.

Anthropology

is a type of science about human beings.

William James

is considered to be a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the "Father of American psychology"

Fake Self

is our defense façade. Overlaying or contradicting the original sense of self.

Cognitive

is related to the process of cognition, sigoloid

The "me"

is the awareness of how others expect one to behave. It is also known as "socialized self"

Empiricism

is the idea that the origin of all knowledge is sense experience.

The "me-self"

is the phenomenal self, the experienced self, or the self as known.

The "self"

is the self-thought or the self-knower.

Sociology

is the study of human behavior in the society

Archaeology

is the study of human history

Psychology

is the study of mind and behavior.

Rationalism

is the theory that reason, rather experience, is the foundation of all knowledge.

The "I"

is who an individual really is. It is also known as "unsocialized self"

Erving Goffman

known for his role in the development of Modern American Sociology.

-ology

means "a type of science."

Anthrop-

means "about human beings,"

Vicarious Learning (Observational Learning)

occurs when a person is motivated to learn by watching someone else work and be rewarded.

Ego

operates according to the reality principle

Id

operates on the pleasure principle

Self-reinforcers

refer to the desired outcomes a person can give themselves.

Self-efficacy

refers to a person's belief about their ability to perform a behavior successfully.

Unconscious

refers to data but now easily available to the individual's scrutiny.

Cultural relativism

respecting and accepting all cultures

Game Stage

the child begins to consider several tasks and various types of relationships simultaneously.

Microsystem

the small immediate environment the child lives in

Ethnocentrism

the tendency to judges other cultures by one owns culture

Carl Ransom Rogers

was an American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology.

Phenomena

which refers to the manifestation of the ideal.


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