Exploring the Nature of Self and Identity
Exploring the Nature of Self and Identity
Test your knowledge of philosophical concepts surrounding the self and identity with our 49-question quiz. Dive into various perspectives from renowned thinkers and understand how our identity shapes our experiences in society.
This quiz covers important topics including:
- Philosophical theories of the self
- Key figures in the study of identity
- Psychological concepts related to self
- Sociological perspectives on development of self
He considers that the true self is the soul possessed by the human body. Also he considered that we need to become aware of our soul. "the unexamined life is not worth living."
Plato
Socrates
St. Augustine
A student of Socrates proposed the idea that the word is composed of two substances e.g. The material and immaterial being. To him the soul is divided into three parts namely; Rational Soul, Spirited Soul, and Appetitive Soul.
St. Augustine
Socrates
Plato
Is a part of a person who is inclined to pleasures.
Appetitive Soul - peasant
Spirited Soul - souldiers
Rational Soul - Leaders, Kings, and Philosophers
The rational function of a person
Spirited Soul - souldiers
Rational Soul - Leaders, Kings, and Philosophers
Appetitive Soul - peasant
Courageous part of a person who wanted to do good and avoid bad.
Rational Soul - Leaders, Kings, and Philosophers
Appetitive Soul - peasant
Spirited Soul - souldiers
A priest and one of the medieval philosophers who consider that a human person is composed of two substances namely body and soul.
St. Augustine
Plato
Socrates
He is a mathematician and philosophers who considers that human is composed of body and mind. He defines these two substances as the res cogitans - the thinking being and res extensa the measurable being. In his claim "I think, therefore, I exist."
John Locke
David Hume
Rene Descartes
He is considered as one of the empiricists. He considered that knowledge is not innate but can be learned using our five senses.
David Hume
John Locke
Rene Descartes
As an, empiricist, he considers that the concept about the self came from the collection or bundle of perceptions or apprehension.
David Hume
Rene Descartes
John Locke
The self, in the form of consciousness, utilizes conceptual categories (or "transcendental rules") such as substance, cause and effect, unity, plurality, possibility, necessity, and reality.
Immanuel Kant
Gilbert Ryle
Sigmund Freud
His philosophy about the self became a theory in psychology. To him the self is divided into three points of responses namely; Id, Ego, Super Ego.
Immanuel Kant
Gilbert Ryle
Sigmund Freud
The mediator between the self-oriented pleasure self and the Super Ego.
Id
Ego
Super Ego
The instinct that seeks pleasure and avoids a pain.
Id
Ego
Super Ego
Is the one who learned and recognizes moral principles.
Id
Ego
Super Ego
He statement "I act therefore I exist". As a materialist, he also concludes that the death of the body is also the end of the self.
Immanuel Kant
Gilbert Ryle
Sigmund Freud
These neurologists believe that all immaterial things e.g. Mental states do not exist. They considered that the brain is the true identity of a person. To understand the self-according to them we need to study the brain of a person.
Sigmund Freud
Immanuel Kant
Paul and Patricia Churchland
He believed that the mind and body are not disembodied things. Knowledge mind needed the body.
Paul and Patricia Churchland
Sigmund Freud
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
It is the study of human social connections and institutions. It covers a wide range of topics, from crime to religion, from the family to the state, from racial and social class divides to shared cultural ideas, and from societal stability to dramatic upheaval in whole countries.
Sociology
Society
Social
Sociology comes from the Latin word "s_______" meaning "c_________" and "l___" which means "s______".
Who are the sociologists who have made lasting contributions to our understanding of human development related to the construction of self and identity as embedded in society and culture.
Paul and Patricia Churchland
George Herbert Mead and Charles Horton Cooley
Herbert Mead and Charles Cooley
He was an American philosopher and social theorist. He is also considered to be the father of symbolic interactionism. He once said, "What gives its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct."
George Herbert Mead
Charles Cooley
Patricia Churchland
(children initially can only mimic the gestures and words of others.
Imitation
Play
Games
(beginning at age three, children play the roles of specific people, such as a firefighter or the Lone Ranger).
Imitation
Play
Games
(in the first years of school)
Imitation
Play
Games
This is the primary methos for humans to communicate, this allows individuals to responds to each other through symbols, gestures, words, and sounds. Attitudes, opinions, and even emotions can be expressed through language.
Games
Play
Language
It allows the development of the self as it involves children's taking on different perspectives of who/what they are pretending to be.
Games
Play
Language
This activity lets individuals learn to take the perspective of the other team members or even their opponents.
Games
Play
Language
It refers to the difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can achieve with guidance and encouragement from a skilled partner.
He statement, "I am not what I think I am, I am not what you think I am; I am what I think you think I am". He was born in 1864. He completed bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Michigan.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Lev Vygotsky
Charles Horton Cooley
It acts as a mirror that helps individuals to measure their worth, values, and behavior.
Interaction
Social Interaction
Self Interaction
It describes the process wherein individuals base their sense of self on how they believe others view them.
The looking-glass
Mirror
Social Interaction
His greatest contribution to psychology was social identity theory.
Charles Horton Cooley
Erving Goffman
Henri Tajfel
It is a person's sense of who they are based on their group membership.
Social Interaction
Social Identity
Identity
The first stage is _____________. We categorize objects in order to understand them and identify them.
Social Comparison
Social Identification
Categorization
In the second stage, we adopt the identity of the group we have categorized ourselves as belonging to.
Social Comparison
Social Identification
Categorization
The final stage. Once we have categorized ourselves as part of a group and have identified with that group, we then tend to compare that group with other groups.
Categorization
Social Comparison
Social Identification
One of the most influential American sociologist of the 20th century. For him, social interaction may be compared to a theater and people to actors on a stage where each play a variety of roles.
Henri Tajfel
Kenneth Gernen
Erving Goffman
It is crucial for socialization. It refers to the way people distinguish the good and bad in society.
Moral
Moral Development
Social Development
It is a study of all the aspects of human condition. This includes human history, the present human condition, and even the future possibilities.
The self is an animal species which underwent the process of biological evolution and has shared characteristics with other living animals, the hominids, in particular.
Cultural Anthropological
Animal Anthropological
Traditional Anthropological
Self as the only animal with a larger brain capacity making him/her a rational animal
Social Aspects
Physical Aspects
Self uses language and symbol in dynamin, complicated and yet systematic manner allowing him/her to communicate, and preserve history, knowledge, culture, etc.
Social Aspects
Physical Aspects
Systems of human behavior and thought. This covers all customs, traditions, and capabilities of humans as they function in society to other words, cultures are those complex structures of knowledge, beliefs arts, religion morals, law, language, traditional practices and all other aspects needed by humans to function in society.
Symbolic
Culture
The tools and symbols to originate meaning of significant events in life and in society, those tools and symbols become an integral part of the culture.
Symbolic
Culture
Positions the self in relation to the surrounding objects. They learn to respect the trees, the lakes, the falls, and the animals of the forest.
Object Orientation
Spatial Orientation
Temporal Orientation
Normative Orientation
Provides the self with personal space in relation to the other people or things.
Normative Orientation
Temporal Orientation
Spatial Orientation
Object Orientation
Endows the self with the sense of time. Time is truly relevant to cultural communities.
Temporal Orientation
Object Orientation
Normative Orientation
Spatial Orientation
Provides the self with the grasp of accepted norms in the community.
Object Orientation
Spatial Orientation
Temporal Orientation
Normative Orientation
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