mr dAVE
WEEK 9 PERCEIVING THE SELF AND OTHERS Perception of self and others is an essential factor in human relations that requires both physical and social awareness of self and environment. Each individual is unique and therefore has gained different experiences of the world based on needs, values, feelings, knowledge, interests and other characteristics that influence the way we form impressions and make attributions about human behaviour.
Self-concept and perception are so closely related that they are often difficult to separate. While self-concept is how one sees oneself, perception is how one looks at others and the world around him. As our total awareness of the world comes through our senses they have a common basis and a common bias. How one looks at the world depends on what one thinks of oneself and what one thinks of oneself will influence how one looks at the world.
Who am I? Am I what others say I am? Am I who I say I am?
These are some difficult and profound questions we can ask ourselves and how we answer depends on how we see ourselves and how others see us. (If asked to describe yourself what would you say? The distinctive qualities you describe fit into your self definition. How did you develop these beliefs about yourself and have they changed overtime?
Self Concept: an organized collection of beliefs about the self – It is one’s internal mental image of one self and the collection of beliefs about what kind of person one is (referred to as self schemas: mental templates by which we organize the world). It includes personality traits, abilities, physical features, values, goals and social roles.
Our self-concept is shaped by messages (stimuli) about ourselves that we pay attention to. It is relatively stable and is based on objective feelings about ourselves. It comes from communication with others, they tell us who we are (you are a good child), what we look like (you have your father’s eyes) and how they feel about us (I like talking with
Self-concept and perception are so closely related that they are often difficult to separate. While self-concept is how one sees oneself, perception is how one looks at others and the world around him. As our total awareness of the world comes through our senses they have a common basis and a common bias. How one looks at the world depends on what one thinks of oneself and what one thinks of oneself will influence how one looks at the world.
Who am I? Am I what others say I am? Am I who I say I am?
These are some difficult and profound questions we can ask ourselves and how we answer depends on how we see ourselves and how others see us. (If asked to describe yourself what would you say? The distinctive qualities you describe fit into your self definition. How did you develop these beliefs about yourself and have they changed overtime?
Self Concept: an organized collection of beliefs about the self – It is one’s internal mental image of one self and the collection of beliefs about what kind of person one is (referred to as self schemas: mental templates by which we organize the world). It includes personality traits, abilities, physical features, values, goals and social roles.
Our self-concept is shaped by messages (stimuli) about ourselves that we pay attention to. It is relatively stable and is based on objective feelings about ourselves. It comes from communication with others, they tell us who we are (you are a good child), what we look like (you have your father’s eyes) and how they feel about us (I like talking with