This section can be extremely challenging. Each question has 5 possible responses. The raw score for this section is figured by adding one point for each correct answer and subtracting 1/4 point for each one that is answered incorrectly. The incorrect answers are called distractors, and some of them will seem like they could be right. But there is always only one correct answer, and if you fill in more than one oval for a particular question on your response sheet, you will have that response marked as incorrect.…
Derek Parfit writes about the topic of what persons are and what their existence over time consists of. He is motivated to explore this subject because of his fascination with split-brain patients and their ability to see a different color with each eye and, after processing this information in separate hemispheres, their left and right hands write down the different ‘seen’ color simultaneously.1 There is no communication between the brain hemispheres about what color they’ve witnessed and therefore some philosophers have claimed that there are two streams of consciousness. Parfit attempts to prove that humans may in fact have none. His thesis involves refuting the Ego Theory, the idea that personal identity is a subject of experiences, in…
function in. If your highest score is 32 or more, it is a strong indicator of the stage your…
I am a woman, a mother, a wife, a lesbian who is gainfully employed yet still very middle class. I have a bachelor's degree in Business Project Management yet I do not always include that in my identity. I am a college student working on my Master’s degree in Higher and Post-Secondary Education. I am White Anglo-American of German, Irish and European descent. I tend to be pretty liberal in my views of society and politics. I think life experiences have helped mold my personal identity and identify what I value and respect in others.…
Inquiring about personal identity will inevitably give birth to questions dealing with our being people, or, as many philosophers like to say, persons. To the thoughtful person, these questions may be familiar, but still remain complex: What am I? When did I begin existing? What is going to happen to me when I die? Others are more complex: How is it that a person can persist from one time to another? What is it to be a person? What does it mean when I say the word “I”? These questions are capable of being answered in numerous different ways. I seek to answer these questions in light of the resurrection as conceived in Christian…
Although I have developed socially, intellectually, spiritually and emotionally since childhood, I am still on journey in adulthood. As I am 38 years old married female, I am currently in Erikson’s psychosocial developmental stage of “intimacy vs isolation”. In this stage, a person must achieve a sense of individual identity before being in a committed relationship; which welcomes another individual to share an identity with them (Smith-Adcock & Tucker, 2017). Not only do I agree with Erickson’s theory about knowing oneself before truly loving another person, but I also agree how some women resolve their identity when they choose a mate which shapes their identity around traditional gender-role expectations from a sociocultural context as well…
Back in the day, few wondered about their ancestors. The majority of people thought they knew all about their ancestor’s history. Who they we’re, their nationality, and their native language. But today in society many are shocked to find out that their ancestor history or past isn’t true at all because of DNA genealogy. If you thought that your ancestors we’re Puerto Rican and they actually turned out to be Mexican. Would you freak out? Would you have to change your ways? Would you change your traditions?…
I also greatly relate to Ms. Anzaldua to how she is being Mexican American and not able to identify with Mexican and /or American. Just like Ms. Anzaldua found herself writing switching codes, I encounter myself speaking using a mix of English and Amharic words. When I speak in Amharic with Ethiopians and end up casually mixing English words, I get judged like I am losing my very own language…. a language that define my identity. And when I speak with an English-speaking individual and I accidentally throw Amharic words without even realizing I felt ashamed for doing…
· Triandis, H.C. (1989). The self and social behavior in different cultural contexts. Psychological Review, 96, 506-520.…
Ethical egoism was introduced by the philosopher Henry Sidgwick in 1874. He compared egoism to the philosophy of utilitarianism, writing that whereas utilitarianism sought to maximize overall pleasure, egoism focused only on maximizing individual pleasure.…
No one in the whole wide world has a constant identity that remains stagnant throughout their lives. Throughout my entire life, I have always been experiencing changes regarding my identity. Whether it involves who I associate with, how I label myself, or where I come from, my identity has always been changing; however, there are certain aspects of my identity that are more important to me than other aspects of my identity. Because it is unique to me, my most imporant aspects of my identity are dance and a lack of a specific region or a location, which have helped shaped me into who I am today.…
When we as a society think about personal identity, we naturally define it in terms of “what we know about the self” (Thiel). We view our own personal identities as characteristics that we feel make us the people that we are—our values, ideas, beliefs, cultures, and uniqueness. While these are not all the characteristics that form a person’s identity, they are, in my opinion, the traits most people associate with the formation of their own identity.…
I would consider it quite a trivial matter if I were asked: who are you? I could of course answer the question without hesitation in elaborate ways, drawing elegant facts and examples from my experiences, hobbies, alignments, et cetera. I can do this, because I am the sole expert who has constant and instantaneous access to the library that is my endeavors in this world. But this response does not fundamentally answer who I am, merely give examples of what I could be (e.g. I am a member of the Homo sapiens species; I am Canadian). What is my true identity, which separates me from all others who also inhabit this world? A more precise question is how my self – whatever it is – is maintained across time: that I have some identity “A” at one instant in time does not automatically entail my being “A” at another. Therefore, it seems that to define my identity, I must first ascertain that I have a temporally continuous individuality. The appearance of simplicity clearly…
ii) When I look at other issues arise besides identity, I get worried about empathy for others. If people are singing about getting your anger out by hitting or breaking something, or 13 year olds dancing to entice a male, I wonder are they going to care that what they may be breaking or touching belongs to someone else. Their destructive behavior affects more people then just themselves. I wonder about isolation, what happens to the girl if she gets scared? Will she hide from society, is she truly allowing people in to get to know her. Do her parents behave like that? Do they even have a relationship? Some of these teens are reflecting on things by realizing they want something different, yet main stream gets a hold of the difference and puts…
Physically, I am an Asian boy with somewhat a smooth hairstyle. I’m relatively chubby with about 168-centimeter height and 80-kilogram weight. Working out every single day and trying to build a ripped body aren’t my things. However, I do love sports, a whole lot. Basketball, table tennis and swimming are hobbies that I enjoy doing real much whenever I have some free time or I simply need a stress reliever. The way I look and the way I speak may make people think that I’m an Asian American, but I’m not. I am originally from Vietnam and I left Vietnam to study abroad when I was 16, studied at a boarding school for the past 3 years. And somehow on the way I lost a tiny bit of that “truly Vietnamese” look and accent. Anyway, I’m a big believer in the quote “Never judges a book by its cover”, so I hardly emphasize on how I appear to be. It does not matter if I dress up as a hipster (which I usually do) or if I decide to have a simple day with casual and comfy clothes on, it’s who I truly am not how my physical appearance that highlights my identity.…