Psychological Perspective

This is defined as a composition of one’s personal characteristics, social roles, and responsibilities as well as affiliations.

• Identity

• Social Self

• Social Responsibility

• Social Affiliation

This is a person’s definition of the self that basically comes to his/her mind when they are asked to define his/her self.

• personal definition

• identity

• self-concept

• self definition

Self, Identity, and Self-concept are never changing.

• true

• false

George Herbert Mead believes that the self is not created and developed through our interaction with other people but rather on our self alone.

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• false

 We are capable of creating ourselves out of nothing.

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• false

Downward Social comparison is when we create a positive self-concept by comparing ourselves with those who are worse off than us

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• false

Upward social comparison is then we compare ourselves with those who are better off than us.

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• false

Too much upward Social comparison may affect our self-esteem especially when the person focuses more in comparing his/her weakness or inequities

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• false

Similar with the view of Kant as the organizing principle, what was Carl Rogers term for our organized system of the self or the collection of knowledge about who we are?

• Mind

• Self-collection

• Organized Self

• Self-schema

Who was the Psychoanalyst that developed a theory about human personality, in which one’s behavior is the result of the interaction between Id, Ego, and Superego?

• Viktor Frankl

• Lev Vygotsky

• Sigmund Freud

• Eric Erikson