PHYSICAL SELF

PREPARED BY: GROUP 4

 LEARNING OBJECTIVE
Understand the stages of life and explain the physical changes
that occur during each stage.
 Identify the contributions of genetic and environmental
factors on physical development of the self.
 Describe the factors that affect today’s image.
 Examine the impact of the culture on the body image and the
self.
 Develop a positive body image.
 TABLE OF CONTENT
 Stages of Life Span
 Factors Affecting Physical Growth and
Development
 Body Image
 Concept of Beauty
 PHYSICAL SELF
 Refers to the body that includes basic parts such as
head, neck, arms, and legs.

 Made up of other organs such as the brain, heart, lungs,

stomach, intestine and muscles.

 In general, the body performs it’s functions least well

during (1) infancy and (2) old age.
 PHYSICAL SELF
 Physical development and growth during childhood
continues at a slow rate compared with rapid rate of
growth in babyhood.

 Physical efficiency generally peaks in early

adulthood and declines into middle age.
“ONE OF THE MOST
CRUCIAL STAGES OF
DEVELOPMENT IS
THE ADOLESCENCE
STAGE”
 ADOLESCENCE
 Begins with the onset of puberty.

This stage is characterized by rapidly

physical changes that includes the
maturation of reproductive system.
1. LIFE SPAN
 LIFE SPAN
 Development from the conception of death.

 Elizabeth B. Hurlock
- Developmental Psychology
(Alife-Span Approach)

 Outlined the stages in the life span

 divided the stages into 10 parts

 STAGES OF LIFE SPAN
• Puberty- 10 or 12 to 14 years old
• Prenatal- Fertilization to the birth
• Adolescence- 14 to 18 years old
• Infancy- Birth to 2 weeks of life
• Early Adulthood- 18 to 40 years
old
• Babyhood- 2 weeks of life to 2nd year
• Middle Adulthood- 40 to 60 years
• Early Childhood- 2 to 6 years old old

• Late Childhood- 6 to 10 years old • Late Adulthood- 60 years old to

death
 2 FACTORS
AFFECTING
PHYSICAL
GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN NATURE:
NATURE VS
NURTURE
 NATURE VS NURTURE
NATURE NURTURE
 Sociologists, biologists,  Sociologists,
psychologists, and anthropologists, and
others in the natural others in the social
sciences argue that sciences argue that human
behavior traits can behavior is learned and
shaped through
explained by genetics. interaction.
 FACTORS AFFECTING GROWTH
AND DEVELOPMENT
1. HEREDITY
- the biological process of transmission of traits from
parents of offspring.

- the sex and other physical traits are determined by

the combination of (1) CHROMOSOMES and (2)
GENES during fertilization (the union of the two cells:
egg and sperm).
CHROMOSOMES
 A thread like tissues that carries
the genes, and are usually found
in pairs.

 23 pairs of chromosomes
 2 TYPES OF
CHROMOSOMES
1. AUTOSOMES or trait chromosomes (23
pairs)

2. Genosomes or sex chromosomes (the X

and Y)
GENES
 Basic carriers of hereditary traits
 Can be classified into:
1. DOMINANT (strong genes)
- the expressed form of trait when present.

2. RECESSIVE (weak genes)

- the trait is not expressed when the
dominant form of the trait is
present.
 FACTORS AFFECTING
PHYSICAL GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT
2. ENVIRONMENT
- Refers to the factors to which an individual is exposed
after conception to death which includes learning and
experience.

- Factors such as diet, nutrition, and diseases play an

important role in physical development.
BODY IMAGE
BODY IMAGE
 Refers to how individuals
perceive, think and feel
about their body and
physical appearance.
APPERANCE
Everything about a person that
others can observe such as
height, weight, skin color,
clothes, and hairstyles.
SELF-ESTEEM
A person overall evaluation of his or her own worth.

Younger women and girls tend to have a poor body

image.

Body image, can affect both adolescent’s physical and

psychological well-being.
CAUSE OF POOR BODY IMAGE
Emphasis on thin ideal body

Bullying and peer pressure

Media
EFFECTS OF POOR BODY IMAGE

1.Body Dissatisfaction

2.Depression

3.Low Self-Esteem
EFFECTS OF POOR BODY
IMAGE
4 . Eating Disorder
(1. BULIMIA)

Eating Disorder
(2. ANOREXIA NERVOSA)
EFFECTS OF POOR BODY IMAGE
5. Body Modification
Forms of Body Modification
1. Tattoing
2. Permanent make up
3. Body piercing
4. Cosmetic Surgery
CONCEPT OF
BEAUTY
HOW DO YOU
DEFINE
BEAUTY?
In Egyptian art, beauty is
portrayed in women with
slim. High waists, narrow
hips, and long black hair.
Women with full
figures and rounded
hips were considered
beautiful during the
Renaissance period.
Some tribes (e.g.,
Africa) during
Medieval age consider
chubby, fat or plum
women beautiful.
Some tribes in
Malaysia, the
Philippines, and
Indonesia considered
flat noses to be the
most attractive.
Standards of beauty have
changed over time based on
changing cultural values.

All cultures have, more or

less, the same concepts of
standards of beauty.
4 STANDARDS OF BEAUTY
1. Clean and unblemished skin
2. Thick shiny hair
3. Well-proportioned bodies
4. Symmetrical faces
 Beauty is considered important as
history.

 This is because, these features

indicate youth, health, good genes,
and fertility.
 Beauty is important in all
societies.

 Attractive people have a lot

of advantages in life.
  Above all things
physical, it is more
important to be beautiful
in the inside
THANK YOU