PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

LESSON 1:
KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING ONESELF DURING
MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE
The first stage of knowing yourself is to
identify what are your strengths and
weaknesses. This may help you to guide in
getting to know more yourselves and become
more acceptable on what you can do, and
what your limitations.
KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING ONESELF
DURING MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE
 STRENGHT  WEAKNESSES

 CAPABILITIES  HOBBIES
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One great way of assessing the self and know

how much the individual knows the self is by
asking the people around them. Though this may
be awkward, particularly when asking someone
straightforwardly. Know that even your friends
can be a great source of information, whether it
be positive or negative about the self.
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To avoid being awkward and extract the

best possible self-assessment without
compromising the individual, psychologists
Joseph Luft (1916-2014) and Harrington
Ingham (1916-1995) devised a technique to
help people better understand themselves as
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Name: Known to Self Not Known to Self

Known to others
1. (Arena) 3. (Blind Spot)

Not Known to Others

2. (Facade) 4. (Unknown)
CHALLENGE YOURSELF ON HOW MUCH YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR “SELF.”

Instruction: Write your 3 answers on the separate paper.

1. Below is the table devised by Joseph and Harrington in assessing the self. Write your
name on the first box indicated.
2. On the first box (no.1) write everything that you know about yourself; and everything
that people around you/others often think or feel everything about you.
3. On the second box (no. 2) Write everything about yourself that is only known to you
and to you alone.
4. On the third box (no. 3) You may need the help of others to fill out this space for you.
At the beginning of this activity, your name is optional if you want to write it or not.
This box explains people/others know something about you, but you yourself need to
check or to re-affirm.
On the last box (no. 4), you may leave it blank.
 AREA OF DEVELOPMENT

1.PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
2.COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
3.PSYCHOLOGICAL and SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT
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PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
= is the growth and development of both the
brain and body in infancy and early
childhood.
= Is the growth and development of both
brain and body and involves developing
control of muscles and physical
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COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
= refers to how a person perceives,
thinks, and gains understanding of his
or her world through the interaction of
genetic and learned.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL and SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Psychological Dev’t = Is the development of
human beings' cognitive, emotional,
intellectual, and social capabilities and
functioning over the course of a normal life
span, from infancy through old age.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL and SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Social Dev’t = refers to how people
develop social and emotional skills across
the lifespan, with particular attention to
childhood and adolescence.
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Thank You
And
God Bless!