PHYSICAL SELF

 Refers to the body that includes basic parts such as head, neck, arms and legs
 Made up of the other organs such as brain, heart, lungs, stomach, intestines and
muscles

In general, the body performs its functions least well during (1) infancy and (2) old age.
Physical efficiency generally peaks in early adulthood and declines into the middle age.
Physical development and growth during childhood continues at a slow rate compared
with the rapid rate of growth in babyhood.
One of the most crucial stages of development is the adolescence stage.

Life Span- Development from conception to death (Elizabeth B. Hurloc)

1. Prenatal- Fertilization to Birth
2. Infancy- Birth to 2 weeks
3. Babyhood- 2 weeks to 2 years old
4. Early Childhood- 2 years old to 6 years old
5. Late Childhood- 6 to 10 or 12 years old
6. Puberty- 10 or 12 to 14 years old
7. Adolescence- 14 to 18 years old
8. Early Adulthood- 18 to 40 years old
9. Middle Adulthood- 40 to 60 years old
10. Late Adulthood- 60 years old to death

FACTORS AFFECTING PHYSICAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

1. HEREDITY
 Biological process of transmission traits from parents to offspring.
 The sex and other physical traits are determined by the combination of (1)
chromosome & (2) genes during fertilization
CHROMOSOME
 Thread-like tissues that carry the genes and are usually found in pairs.
 23 pairs of chromosomes
a. Autosomes or Trait Chromosomes (22 pairs)
b. Gonosome or Sex Chromosome (X & Y)
GENES
 Basic carriers of hereditary trait
 Dominant trait (strong genes)
 Recessive Trait (weak genes)

2. ENVIRONMENT
 Refers to the factors to which individual is exposed after conception to death which
includes learning and experiences
 It includes diet, nutrition and diseases.

BODY IMAGE
 Refers to how individuals perceive, think, and feel about their body and physical
appearance.
APPEARANCE
  Everything about a person that others can observe such as height, weight, color, clothes
and hairstyle.

SELF-ESTEEM
 Coined by William James in 1800
 A person’s overall evaluation of his or her own worth.

Younger women & girls tend to have poor body image.

Body image can affect both the adolescent’s physical & psychological state.

CAUSES OF POOR BODY IMAGE

 Emphasis of Thin Ideal Body- Tiktok A4 Waist Challenge

 Bullying and Peer Pressure
 Media

EFFECTS OF POOR BODY IMAGE

 Body Dissatisfaction
 Depression
 Low Self-Esteem
 Eating Disorder
 Body Modification

CONCEPT OF BEAUTY
WHAT PHILOSOPHERS THINK ABOUT BEAUTY
Beauty as an Objective Quality
 It gave delight because it was beautiful.
- St. Augustine.
 Beauty as a response to love and desire.
- Plato
 Order, symmetry and definiteness are the chief forms of beauty.
- Aristotle

Beauty as Subjective
 Beauty is no quality in things themselves.
- David Hume
 The judgment of taste is therefore not a judgment of cognition.
- Immanuel Kant
 The perception of beauty does not depend on the external sense of sight.
- Francis Hutcheson

WHAT DID PSYCHOLOGY DISCOVER ABOUT BEAUTY?

 A person who is perceived as attractive makes more money than a person of below-
average looks.

Cognitive Bias
 Error of reasoning, evaluating, remembering or any mental process that results from
holding on to one’s preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information.
“Halo Effect”
  Physical attractiveness stereotype
 “What is beautiful is good principle”

HOW IMPORTANT IS PHYSICAL BEAUTY?

 “Do not judge the book by its cover.”
 Physical beauty is extremely important!
BEAUTY
 “the degree to which a person’s physical traits are considered pleasing or beautiful”
 To have a positive image and a higher self-esteem, fix your false beliefs about physical
attractiveness first.