PSY325H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Collective Unconscious, We Exist
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Idea of self is influenced by and rooted in history. Imagine a book the i self is actively reading and interpreting the words, recognizing the words while the me-self are the actual contents of the page: me-self is self-concept. I have agency and control over an action or behavior: self-awareness reflects innate appreciation that we exist as entity that has needs, thoughts, and emotions. Integrated: authentic, all three theories have similarities. Imitation of others" behaviour, attitudes, values, or standards: they focus on certain processes that are integral to the construction of the self, adjustment of behaviour to garner the approval of salient socializing agents. Individual comes to adopt the generalized perspective of a group of significant others that shares a particular societal perspective on the self. Judgments of numerous significant others are somehow psychologically weighted in order to produce an overall sense of self-worth: psychoanalytic theory of freud.
