Understanding the Self

1. The people and places in your life are your...?

• A. Character

• B. Environment

• C. Heredity

• D. Esteem

Answer explanation

Character, Heredity, and Esteem are within oneself. But Environment is one of the factors that impacted the growth of oneself socially. So the people and places that you belonged to is your environment.

2. Having self-awareness means that:

• A. Know what you are feeling when you are feeling it.

• B. Being able to see yourself.

• C. Using self-image to look into the inside.

• D. Being aware of yourself

Answer explanation

Self-awareness is the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don't align with your internal standards.

Choices B and C deal with self-image while D is near to self-awareness but

option A knowing what you feel is the definite description of self-awareness.

As self-awareness involved the awareness of a person's self-image and Self-image is the personal view, or mental picture, that we have of ourselves. Self-image is an “internal dictionary” that describes the characteristics of the self, including such things as intelligent, beautiful, ugly, talented, selfish, and kind.

3. The behavior that we show, emotions and actions are the reflection of our mind and as such is the manifestation of who we are. This is according to...

• A. Gilbert Ryle

• B. Paul Churchland

• C. Maurice Ponty

• D. Emmanuel Kant

Answer explanation

Gilbert Ryle focused on the behavior that the self is the way people behave. The self is basically our behavior.

Paul Churchland focused on materialism that belief is nothing but matter exist.

Maurice Ponty focused on the ways in which our embodiment is central to our consciousness and self.

While Kant believed inner and an outer self which together form our consciousness.

4. Which of the following is not included in the most prevailing issues on self?

• A. Self vs. Identity

• B. Social factor

• C. Nature vs. Nurture

• Dimensionalities of the self/identity

Answer explanation

If we look at the choices, option A, C, and D focused exclusively on self. While Social factor is the focused on the outside activity of self.

These are the most prevailing issues on self (1) how it is that one distinguishes oneself from others, as the object of a self-attribution; (2) whether self-awareness yields a grasp of the material or non-material nature of the self; (3) whether self-awareness yields a grasp of one’s personal identity over time; and (4) what sort of self-understanding is required for rational or free agency.

5. It discusses the different representations and conceptualizations of the self from various disciplines.

• A. The self from various ideas

• B. The self from various perspectives

• C. The self from various theories

• D. The self from various disciplines

Answer explanation

As you begin to read about self you will encounter different perspectives, philosophical perspectives. Perspective is a point of view is a specific attitude or manner through which a person thinks about something. Notice that ideas are product of thought and many philosophers conveyed their ideas about self through what they perceived. Theories are attempts to explain a certain problem. And discipline is a branch of knowledge. So the answer is B. Philosophers discussed about self based on their perspective.

6. He contended that ideas are not innate but rather the mind at birth is a "tabula rasa".

• A. John Locke

• B. David Hume

• C. Gilbert Ryle

• D. Rene Descartes

Answer explanation

Locke posits an “empty” mind, a tabula rasa, which is shaped by experience, and sensations and reflections being the two sources of all our ideas.

7. According to him the self is nothing else but a bundle of impressions.

• A. Emmanuel Kant

• B. Rene Descartes

• C. John Locke

• D. David Hume

Answer explanation

To Hume, the self is “that to which our several impressions and ideas are supposed to have a reference… If any impression gives rise to the idea of self, that impression must continue invariably the same through the whole course of our lives, since self is supposed to exist after that manner.

8. It includes the aspects like individual's personality, values and morals that are usually stable and constant.

• A. Spiritual Self

• B. Material Self

• C. Social Self

• D. Real Self

Answer explanation

Your Spiritual Self is you in your most beautiful and powerful form. It is the authentic self, the unconditioned part, the you without patterns. This is personal for each of us, so no need to get caught up on the language

9. Consists of the things or objects that belong to the person or entities that a person belongs to.

• A. Material Self

• B. Spiritual Self

• C. Social Self

• D. Ideal Self

Answer explanation

The material self, according to William James, pertains to the objects, places, or even people which have the label “mine”. Such possessions are viewed as extensions of individuals' identities. For instance, your clothes reflect certain aspects of your personality and you designate them as “my wardrobe”.

10. His ideas follow the view of Plato but adds Christian ideas.

• A. St. Augustine

• B. St. Thomas

• C. St. John

• D. St. Paul

Answer explanation

The most lasting philosophical influence on Augustine is Neoplatonism. Augustine was perhaps the greatest Christian philosopher of Antiquity and certainly the one who exerted the deepest and most lasting influence.