REVIEWER IN UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

PRIVATE SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS SYSTEM: also

DIFFERENTIATED SELF: is the ability to separate
called “narrator” or “interpreter”
feelings and thoughts.
- It is the portion of your being that
UNDIFFERENTIATED SELF: people cannot
verbally narrates what is happening to
separate feelings and thoughts
makes sense of what is going on.
DIFFERENTIATION: is the process of freeing
PUBLIC PERSONA/ SELF: it refers to a public
yourself from your family process to define
image that you attempt to project.
yourself.
MURRAY BOWEN: he was the one who
REAL VS. IDEAL SELF terms to define personality
introduced self-differentiation
domains
2 ASPECTS OF SELFD-DIFFERENTIATION
REAL SELF: is who actually we are/ self-image
INTRAPSYCHIC DIFFERENTIATION: is when we
- It can be seen by others
can tell our feelings and thoughts. Self-
IDEAL SELF: is how we want to be
awareness
- It can composed of what our parents
INTERPERSONAL DIFFERENTIATION: is when
taught us
we can distinguish our experience from the
CARL ROGERS- is a humanistic psychologist who
experience of other people
believed that we all own a real and ideal self.
EMOTION TRANSMISSION: the contagious
result of emotion in a system
I AND ME
EMOTION CONVERGENCE: the idea that people
ME: is the social self
living together can become similar emotionally
- Conventional habitual individual
ACE- ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE
I: Is the response to me
EXCITINGLY: finding evidence for the influence
- Response to the organism to the
people have on each other
attitude of others
INTERESTINGLY: effect from negative emotion
- Novel reply to the individual to the
than from positive emotion
generalized one
2 PHASES OF SELF
TRUE SELF: is the core of who you are, the
- The phase which reflects the attitude of
original you
the generalized other
FALSE SELF: can also be called adapted self
- The phase which responds to the
D.W. WINNICOTT: a great psychoanalytic
attitude of the generalized other
theorist used the term false self
INDIVIDUALISM: individual self-worth,
MULTIPLE VS. UNIFIED SELF
uniqueness of each person, independent
- This position can initially be justified by
decision and judgements, right to privacy, the
the basic observation that we inhabit
one who is responsible for personal action and
one body.
well-being
3 SEPERABLE DOMAINS/ PORTION OF SELF
COLLECTIVISM: uniformity and conformity are
EXPERENTIAL SELF: It the theater of
the ideals, group norms, the group assumes for
consciousness
the well-being of its member
ANTONIO DAMASIO: shares his thoughts on
this portion the self.