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GE1 Understanding The Self

The document discusses the self as a cognitive construct from several perspectives. It describes the self-concept as a cognitive representation containing knowledge about personality, traits, abilities, and identity. The self-concept becomes more complex through childhood as different cognitive self-schemas develop. William James viewed consciousness as selecting what to pay attention to, and saw the self as having different components like the pure ego and spiritual self. Overall, the document examines how cognitive psychology understands the self as being shaped by both internal cognitive capacities and external social and cultural experiences.

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GE1 Understanding The Self

The document discusses the self as a cognitive construct from several perspectives. It describes the self-concept as a cognitive representation containing knowledge about personality, traits, abilities, and identity. The self-concept becomes more complex through childhood as different cognitive self-schemas develop. William James viewed consciousness as selecting what to pay attention to, and saw the self as having different components like the pure ego and spiritual self. Overall, the document examines how cognitive psychology understands the self as being shaped by both internal cognitive capacities and external social and cultural experiences.

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Castillo, Josalyn L.

BSED-Major in Filipino

Module 1. Understanding the Self (GE1)

Lesson 1.

Learning Activities

1. How would you characterize your “self”?


- I characterize myself as a person who always gives her best and tries her hardest. A person
who always want to help other people and also a person who’s responsible enough to make
decisions for herself.
2. What makes you stand out from the rest? What makes your ‘self’?
- What makes me stand out from the rest is my Confidence, because when I truly believe that
I can create what I envision, when I am not afraid of the obstacles in life, that confidence of
mine will automatically make me stand out from the rest.
3. How has your ‘self’ transform itself?
- I transformed into a strong, brave, responsible woman who face every battles and
challenges in life with confidence and faith to HIM. The challenges I have encountered in life
made me strong and help me to become a better version and a better person. Also, with the
help of my beloved family who never gets tired of supporting me in every step that I take.
4. How is your ‘self’ connected to your body?
- I am connected with my body through my mind, heart, spirit, emotions and other
connecting ligaments. In every feeling that I have inside, translates and reflects in my action.
5. How is your ‘self’ related to other selves?
- I myself would have to say that I am related to other selves by means of my attachments to
other people, the support by other people that are part of my life.
6. What will happen to your ‘self’ after you die?
- After I die, maybe my spirit and body separate even though my body dies, my spirit which is
the essence of who I am, lives on.

Practice Task/ Assessment

Answer:

1. Socrates
For Socrates, the soul is the person’s true self

2. Plato
For Plato, the soul is the self. In fact, Plato believes
that the soul is just residing in the body temporarily.
3. Augustine Augustine’s sense of self is his relation to God, both
his recognition of God’s love and his response to it,
achieved through self-realization.

4. Descartes For Descartes, it is the mind that makes us humans.


Thus, the ‘mind’ is the ‘real self’

5. Hume According to Hume, self is a bundle or collection of


different perceptions which succeed each other with
an inconceivable rapidity and are in a perpetual flux
and movement.

6. Kant According to Immanuel Kant, we all humans have an


inner and outer self which unify to give
consciousness.

7. Ryle For Ryle, the self is the way people behave. The self is
basically the behavior.

8. Merleau-Ponty For Merleau- Ponty, the self is an embodied


subjectivity where he believes that the physical body
to be an important parts of what makes up the
subjective self.

My concept of self is how you perceive your behavior, abilities and unique characteristics.
Yourself is your sense of who you are, deep down on your identity just like how Gilbert Ryle define
‘Self’.

Assignment

Do a research online regarding the self as cognitive construct.

Answer:

In cognitive psychology the self is understood as contextual, or ecological, intertwining


cognitive capacities with social experiences and Bernard's analysis affirms the novel's narrative
where the self develops through cognitive and cultural interconnections.
Development and Characteristics of the Self-Concept

Part of what is developing in children as they grow is the fundamental cognitive part of the self,
known as the self-concept. The self-concept is a knowledge representation that contains
knowledge about us, including our beliefs about our personality traits, physical characteristics,
abilities, values, goals, and roles, as well as the knowledge that we exist as individuals.
Throughout childhood and adolescence, the self-concept becomes more abstract and complex
and is organized into a variety of different cognitive aspects of the self, known as self-
schemas. Children have self-schemas about their progress in school, their appearance, their
skills at sports and other activities, and many other aspects. In turn, these self-schemas direct
and inform their processing of self-relevant information (Harter, 1999), much as we saw
schemas in general affecting our social cognition.

Another approach to studying the self is to investigate how we attend to and remember things
that relate to the self. Indeed, because the self-concept is the most important of all our
schemas, it has an extraordinary degree of influence on our thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
When we notice that we are struggling in our thoughts, we can deduce that we are fused with
the cognitive creations of the thinking Self. In spiritual self, it is very important to have self-
introspection or self-examination. With his concept of Self Theory, he suggests that there are
two components of self-concept namely: the real self and the ideal self. It is available as a
digital text through the Classics in the History of Psychology that appears before our conscious
awareness and then passes away.

William James was born at the Astor House in New York City on January 11, 1842. The Principles
of Psychology William James (1890) CHAPTER X While self-efficacy refers to an individual’s
judgments of their own abilities, self-concept is more general and includes both cognitive
(thoughts about) and affective (feelings about) judgments about oneself (Bong & Clark, 1999).
The self-concept is a knowledge representation that contains knowledge about us, including
our beliefs about our personality traits, physical characteristics, abilities, values, goals, and
roles, as well as the knowledge that we exist as individuals. He was the son of Henry James Sr.,
a noted and independently wealthy Swedenborgian theologian well acquainted with the
literary and intellectual elites of his day. When the needs of the self are denied, severe anxiety,
depression or frustration may occur.

Critically evaluate Piaget 's stages of development. Self-concept is a more complex construct
than self-efficacy. He saw the most significant function of consciousness to be the role it played
in selecting what to pay attention to. According to him, it is vital for an individual to fully
understand oneself for it is the key to further define one’s personal identity. In his article, "The
Cognitive Construction of the Self in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God," Patrick S.
explores the conception and representation of the self as a cognitive construct in Zora Neale
Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. The prominent American pragmatist, William
James, developed his definition of self-consciousness in his Principles of Psychology, published
in 1890. The I-Self, which is being referred as the thinking self, it is the one reflecting the soul of
a person or the mind which is also called as the pure ego. William James, father of American
Psychology, used functionalist perspective and acknowledged the survival importance of
instinctive motivation. Not only have new models proliferated, but a number of investigators
have sought theoretical guidance from historical scholars of the past. And lastly, the spiritual
self which refers as the most intimate and important part of the self that includes the person’s
purpose, core values, conscience and moral behavior.

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