Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary

Taloto District, Tagbilaran City

High School Department

Personal Development
First Quarter
Grade 12

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Title: Knowing Oneself
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Name: Grade and Section:
Subject Teacher: Miss Catherine Tabaniag Time Frame: 3 hours
School Principal: Mrs. Ma. Annalissa Babera

At the end of this lesson, the student is expected to be able to:

 Explain
Learning that knowing oneself can make a person accept his or her strengths and limitations and
Objectives
dealing with others better
 Share his or her unique characteristics, habits, and experiences
 Express that knowing oneself can make a person understand others.

Key Concepts

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

~ Aristotle

Personal Development – is the process of improving oneself.

o In contrast to human development which primarily deals with the physical, mental, social as well
as emotional development, personal development involves self-awareness that includes
thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
Dimensions of the Self: Physical, Psychological, Spiritual
The word self is popularly and generally defined as what an individual sees, perceives, and defines
oneself apart from others. The term self-perception is a sub-definition of this simple yet complex concept.
Physical Dimension – revolves around the physical body of a human being; its processes, functions,
mechanisms, and chemistry – from the cells as the smallest units, the tissues these cells create when
united, the organs these tissues give shape to, to the organ systems that pretty much are responsible
to keeping us alive, walking, talking and breathing.
o This dimension is responsible for giving us the ability to move our muscles, to perceive our
surroundings, and to think of the ideas and opinions that bring wonders to our lives and of
others.
Psychological Dimension – which contains the concepts of stress, cognition, behavior, attitude,
emotion and ultimately, personality. This dimension has both internal and external factors that can or
cannot be measured, observed, and calculated.
o Psychological dimension of self refers to the individual as a set of characteristics, behaviors,
attitudes, cognitions, and emotions.
Spiritual Dimensions – allows us to view ourselves in a spiritual level – as spiritual beings. Compared
to the physical and psychological dimensions, this dimension cannot be observed but can be
subjectively altered and perceived by the person. It holds a relevance to a perceived existence of God,
of a greater good, or a Superior Being relating to the humble individual.
Attitudes and its Components: Affect, Behavior, Cognition
A key factor in personality development is attitude – a settled way of thinking and feeling about
someone or something, typically reflecting in a person’s behavior. Attitude manifests itself as behavior, as a
representative of personality.
 Attitude can be both implicit and explicit. Implicit attitude are thoughts or feelings that conscious
awareness does not cover. Explicit attitudes, however, can be perceived consciously and expressed
accordingly.
Affect – in Psychology, is the term used to represent emotions directed to the self, the environment
and to others. For one to develop a bitter attitude towards being ejected, for example, there must be an
underlying emotional response to the action and its doer. Through this example alone, we cannot fully
describe attitude, therefore, attitude cannot be solely described or defined by one component alone.
Cognition – is the way we think. It encompasses our thoughts in different level, ranging from ourselves
to our environment, from imaginary to perceivable reality. Cognition as a component of attitude is only
viewpoint, a portion of the bigger picture of attitude.
o While cognitions involved all that we mentally conceived, ideas that we create, etc. affect is
solely focused on emotions.
Behavior – is the action form or manifestation of attitude. Without attitude, affect and cognition,
behavior will be rendered baseless and ungrounded. Attitude affects behavior as behavior affects
attitude.
o A practical application of this is the relatable situation of trying a new approach to particular
situations – wherein different behavior is encouraged to the person who has a different attitude
towards the subject.
o A very specific example on how one’s behavior can affect one’s attitude is the act of smiling
when sad and has an effect on this person’s present attitude, yet smiling – the example of
behavior in this situation, elicits a change in the effect of sadness to his or her attitude because
smiling is associated with happiness. This association of happiness to the behavior then affects
the present attitude in various degrees.

How exactly one’s attitude are formed?

A human being learns as it interacts with its environment, thus, it

experiences. Experience, as most say, is the best teacher. Attitudes
are form consequently through this, either personal encounters or
observed consequences.

(From left to right)

How experience affects the wiring of our knowledge and cognitions, thus, affecting attitude.
The social influence on attitude evolves active interaction and exchange.
We usually modelled particular role models that are in our environment.

Attitude is a prominent factor in personality. If you know how it is created, you can know how to handle
it especially when you need to. It is a matter of self-monitoring and self-assertion.
 Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary
Taloto District, Tagbilaran City
High School Department

Personal Development
First Quarter
Grade 12

L
Title: Knowing Oneself
E
Name: Grade and Section:
Subject Teacher: Miss Catherine Tabaniag Time Frame: 3 hours
School Principal: Mrs. Ma. Annalissa Babera Highest Possible Score: 25

I. Fill in the blank. Read each sentence carefully and fill in the blanks with the correct answer.
1. The psychological term used to represent emotion is __________________.
2. _____________ attitude represents unconscious thoughts – our perceptions that are beyond our
awareness.
3. Behavior that occurs within our awareness is called _____________.
4. A behavioral pattern wherein we mimic the actions of particularly recognized individuals is ____________.
5. This dimension of oneself that is responsible for giving us the ability to move our muscles, to perceive our
surroundings, and to think of the ideas and opinions that bring wonders to our lives and others’ is
___________.

II. True or False. Identify whether the given sentences are true or not. Write T if it is correct and F if otherwise.
___ 1. Behavior can be overt or covert.
___ 2. Attitude can be shaped through various ways such as learning, experience, or conditioning.
___ 3. The term self-perception is a sub-definition of this simple yet complex concept.
___ 4. Attitude composes of physical, psychological, and spiritual.
___ 5. Attitude, both explicit and implicit, affects us more than we know.

III. Short Essay. Write a short essay that explains the statement given below. Cite some examples and use
the rubric as a guide.

To Understand others…
You have to understand yourself first.
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Description Score Score Obtained

The given statement was 6
interpreted and explained well.
Some examples were provided to 6
facilitate better understanding of
the essay.
The essay was clear and 3
organized.
TOTAL 15