Pacilan, Princess April Joy H.

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GED 101 Understanding The Self
Activity 3
Instructions: Differentiate the following terms in the box in one sentence. Write your
answers on a clean sheet of paper.
Me-Self I-Self

Me-Self, have three different but I-Self according to James must be the
interrelated aspects of empirical self agent of experience.
(known today as self-concept): the Me
viewed as material, the Me viewed as
social, and the Me viewed as spiritual in
nature.

Real Self Ideal Self

A real self includes all those aspects of
one's identity that are perceived in
awareness and the things that are known
to oneself like the attributes that an
individual possesses.
An ideal self is defined as one’s view of
self as one wishes to be, as it contains all
the aspirations or wishes of an individual
for themselves.

Multiple Self Unified Self

In Multiple Selves Theory, there are Unified being is essentially connected to

different aspects of the self that exist in
an individual, which we can say that self
is a whole consist of parts, and these
parts manifest themselves when need
arise.
consciousness, awareness, and agency.
A well-adjusted person is able to accept
and understand the success and failure
that they experienced. They are those
kinds of people who continually adjust,
adapt, evolve and survive as an individual
with integrated, unified, multiple selves.

True Self False Self

True self has a sense of integrity and False self is an alternative personality
connected wholeness that is rooted in used to protect an individual’s true identity
early infancy. or one’s ability to “hide” the real self, it is
somehow activated to maintain social
relationships in anticipation of the
demands of others.
 Proactive Self
Self as proactive means an individual has
control in any situation by making things
happen, who act as agents in doing or
making themselves as they are.
Agentic Self
Agentic self is the state where we assume
some degree of ownership and control
over things, both internally, controlling our
own thoughts then and externally making
things happen in the environment.