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the tendency of people to pick a personally relevant stimulus, like a name, out of a
complex and noisy environment
2. The set of beliefs that we hold about who we are is called the ______________
3. represents the self concept that an individual would ideally want to posses.
4. People with positive self concept believe in themselves, are confident about their ability
to deal with problems, make decisions, feel equal to others, have respect for
themselves and expect it from others.
5. If people see themselves as failures and have a negative, pessimistic image of
themselves, they will begin to act the part.
6. academic discipline concerned with investigating the nature of significance of ordinary
and scientific beliefs
7. arché- origin or source/the “soul”/the primal matter
8. “the true task of the philosopher is to know oneself” – Socrates
9. reason & intellect to govern affairs – rational soul
10. spirited soul – emotions should be kept at bay
11. appetitive soul – base desires (food, drink, sleep, sexual needs, etc.)
12. body – dies on earth; soul – lives eternally in spiritual bliss with “God” – St Augustine
13. “common stuff that makes up everything in the universe”
14. form (morphe) – “essence of a substance or thing”; (what makes it what it is) ST
THOMAS AQUINAS
15. Father of Modern PhilosophY
16. the only thing one can’t doubt is existence of the self
17. “one can only know what comes from the senses & experiences” – David Hume
18. “what truly matters is the behavior that a person manifests in his day-to-day life.” –
Gilbert Ryle
19. “one’s body is his opening toward his existence to the world” – Merleau Ponty
20. A society is defined as a group of people sharing the same culture and typically
interacts in a definite territory.
21. material culture- the attires, tools, weapons, architectural designs, religious
implements-
22. nonmaterial culture or the belief systems, the values, the norms or expected behaviors,
as well as the shared language and symbols.
23. Socialization (or enculturation) is a lifelong process of learning, teaching, internalizing,
and living the culture of a society.
24. : inherited or given at birth
25. personally acquired for achieving something