GEN 002 Understanding the Self (UTS)

Teacher’s Guide Lesson #5

Name: ________________________________________ Date: ______________

Section: _______________________________________
Schedule: _____________________________________

Lesson title: Materials:

Self from the Perspective of Psychology: White Board Marker, White Board
self as pro-active and agentic Laptop, or Cellphone, Internet
connection
Lesson Objectives: At the end of the lesson, Students will be able to:
1. Formulate a guiding plan for yourself References:
2. Decide for yourself as proactive and agentic ● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking-
glass_self
https://www.iep.utm.edu/mead/
http://philschatz.com/sociology-
book/contents/m42821.html
Gazzingan,L., et.al. (2018),
Understanding the Self, Panday. lahi
Publishing
Based on our previous lesson No.4. Perspective of Psychology by William James about Self
For today’s lesson, I am going to discuss Self as proactive and agentic.

A. LESSON PREVIEW/REVIEW

1. I am very happy to be your professor in this subject UTS, because we will be talking about Cognitive
view of personality by Albert Bandura.

1) Activity 1: What I Know Chart, part 1 (3 minutes)

This is to measure your before and after knowledge about Bandura’s concept of the self. Answer the questions
below by writing your ideas under the first column What I Know. It’s okay if you write key words or phrases that
you think are related to the questions.

What I Know Questions: What I Learned (Activity 4)

Answer this now
the ability of minds to be
concerned with something: to
represent or stand for things,
properties, and states of
affairs
Something is being thought
about or planned ahead of
time.
(Answer this after you learn
something in the lesson)
What do you know about
Intentionality? which enables us to behave
purposefully
What do you know about
Forethought? permit us to anticipate
outcomes

People set goals for themselves and What do you know about Self- motivate and regulate our own
actions, monitor our
anticipate the likely outcomes of future
actions in order to guide and motivate
reactiveness?
their efforts in advance.

is comparable to looking in the mirror What do you know about Self-

and describing what you see. It is a
method of evaluating yourself, your reflection? think about and evaluate our own
motivations
working methods, and your study
methods. Simply put,'reflection' means to
think about something.

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B. MAIN LESSON
1) Activity 2: Content Notes
An agentic Perspective emerges on Bandura’s Socio Cognitive view of
personality

He viewed people as AGENT or originator of experience

He conceived HUMAN AGENCY as the ability to act and make

things in to reality

He views people as self organizing, proactive, self-reflective and self-

regulating as times c times change.

An agentic perspective states that we are not merely reactive

organism shaped by environmental forces or driven by inner impulses.

An Agentic Perspective Human Agency entails:

INTENTIONALITY; which enables us to behave purposefully

FORETHOUGHT; permit us to anticipate outcomes

SELF REACTIVENESS;
Bandura defined human agency allow usto
as “the human capability toexert
motivate and regulate
influence actions
over one’s functioning and
the course of events by one’s actions”. “Through cognitive self-guidance, humans can visualize futures that act
SELFand
on the present; construct, evaluate, REFLECTIVENESS;
modify alternative give us the
courses ofability
actiontotoreflect
gain on our thoughts
valued outcomes; and
and behaviors and make necessary changes needed.
override environmental influences”. “To be an agent is to influence intentionally one’s functioning and life
circumstances”.

Four core properties of human agency:

Intentionality deals with the forming of intentions that “include action plans and strategies for realizing them”.

Forethought involves “the temporal extension of agency” by setting goals and anticipating future events: It
includes more than future-directed plans. People set goals for themselves and foresee likely outcomes of
prospective actions to guide and motivate their efforts anticipatorily. When projected over a long-term course on
matters of value, a forethoughtful perspective provides direction, coherence, and meaning to one’s life. Example:
when a person is deciding, that person has his options. With each options he has to anticipate outcomes in order
for that person decides depending on what might come out after.

Self-reactiveness broadens the role of the agent to be more than just “planners and fore thinkers” and includes
processes of self-management and self-motivation, as well as emotional states that can undermine self-
regulation: The translation of plans into successful courses of action requires the self-management of thought
processes; motivation to stick with chosen courses in the face of difficulties, setbacks, and uncertainties; and
emotional states that can undermine self-regulatory efforts. Example: Drinking in a bar gives a person pleasure
and it will give that person the motivation to drink yet he will regulate his actions in order for him to get away from
self-censured stuff.
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Section: _______________________________________
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Self-reflection refers to the self-examining nature of human agents. “Through self-awareness, they reflect on
their personal efficacy, the soundness of their thoughts and actions, the meaning of their pursuits, and… [if
needed] change existing life course patterns”. Example: Back to the deciding situation, when a person chooses
one of his options and everything went wrong, that person will reflect and will make changes for the better.

Activity 3
Exercise No 1. Skill-building Activities
This is an experiential and situational, please write it here for you to have record reminiscing.

1. What are the three examples given at the end of the second paragraph? How do people project their image
to be judged?
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2. Do we join groups or group gatherings?

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Exercise No. 2

Directions: The following words below were independently written by the teacher, your intentionality, forethought, self-
reactiveness and self-reflection on the chosen word assigned task to you by your teacher. Answer it now in the space
provided. (5 points)

Family Relatives Health Personal Growth Spiritual

Friends Love life Money Fun and Leisure Studies

Intentionality: _____________________________________________________________________
Lovelife, Fun and pleasure, Personal Growth

Forethought: _____________________________________________________________________
studies, Health, Fun and pleasure, Money

Self-reactiveness: __________________________________________________________________
Family, Friends, Relatives

Self-reflection: ____________________________________________________________________
spiritual, Studies, Health, Personal Growth, Love life

Activity 4: What I Know Chart, part 2 (2 mins)

It’s time to answer the questions in the What I Know chart in Activity 1. Log in your answers in the table.

LESSON WRAP UP

Congratulations for finishing this module! Shade the number of the module that you finished.

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Name: ________________________________________ Date: ______________

Section: _______________________________________
Schedule: _____________________________________

Thinking about your learning

Give three (3) positive things that you’ve learn from the lesson?
1. ________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

From the learning that you get, what are your plans to change for the better “YOU”
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What more do you want to know and learn?

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FAQs
1. Do parents need to be careful in their words, gestures, languages and attitudes because it might be
imitated by children observing them. why?
Ans. Certainly Yes! Anything seen / observe by children to their parents and adult are presume right and
correct.
2. Is it right for parents to be over protective to their children?
Ans. Yes, in a way that protecting them from harm, No if the knowledge development and exploration are
controlled.
3. Is it necessary for us to reflect?
Ans. Yes, so that we can evaluate our progress, our behavior if it appropriate or not, to determine if are
effective in our environment.

KEY TO CORRECTION

Exercise No2. Key answer

Intentionality: Lovelife, Fun and pleasure, Personal Growth
Forethought: studies, Health, Fun and pleasure, Money
Self-reactiveness: _Family, Friends, Relatives
Self-reflection: spiritual, Studies, Health, Personal Growth, Love life

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Name: ________________________________________ Date: ______________

Section: _______________________________________
Schedule: _____________________________________

TEACHER-LED ACTIVITIES

A. If this session happens to be a face-to-face, in-classroom learning session:

1) Collect completed work in the SAS.
2) Allocate your contact time with students to individual or small group mentoring, monitoring, and
student consultations.
3) You may administer summative assessments (quizzes, demonstrations, graded recitation,
presentations, performance tasks) during face-to-face sessions.
4) You may also explore supplementary activities that foster collaboration, provided that social
distancing is observed.
5) You may provide supplementary content via videos, etc.

It is important to remember that students who cannot make it to face-to-face, in-classroom sessions for
health and safety reasons, should not be given lower grades for missing in-class activities and should
be given alternative summative tests.

B. If this session happens to be an at-home learning session for the students:

1) Check and grade collected SAS and other input from students.
2) Schedule phone calls/virtual calls/virtual chats to individual students or small groups of students to
monitor work, provide guidance, answer questions, and check understanding.

Thank you for your cooperation!!

God Bless…
Stay Safe always.