FP1 Module 03

Genetic inheritance which provides basic potentialities for development and behavior

Includes not only physical structure but also man’s striving, thinking, feeling, acting and patterns of growth and change throughout a predictable life cycle

Man’s physical and socio-cultural environment heavily influence the extent to which genetic potentials are realized

Concept necessary for explaining many aspects of our perception, feeling, thinking, and behavior

A complex process of continuing interpretive activity- simultaneously the person’s located subjective stream of consciousness

According to _________ the self is any idea or systems of ideas which is associated with the appropriate attitude we call self-feeling

• Charles H. Cooley

• George Herbert Mead

• William James

His perceptions of who he is

• Self-identity

• Self-evaluation

• Self-ideal

• Self-direction

His feelings of worth and adequacy

• Self-identity

• Self-evaluation

• Self-ideal

• Self-direction

“decider subsystem”

• Self-identity

• Self-evaluation

• Self-Ideal

• Self-direction

His picture of the person he could be and should be.

• Self-identity

• Self-evaluation

• Self-ideal

• Self-direction