1. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayers Personality: A Systems Approach Part 2: Parts of PersonalityChapter 7: The Conscious Self The Conscious Self This multimedia product and its contents are protected under copyright law. The following are prohibited by law: any public performance or display, including transmission of any image over a network; preparation of any derivative work, including the extraction, in whole or in part, of any image; any rental, lease, or lending of the program.

2. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayers Personality: A Systems Approach Part 2: Parts of PersonalityChapter 7: The Conscious Self Purpose To familiarize you with the conscious self - a controversial part of personality To describe issues regarding consciousness

3. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayers Personality: A Systems Approach Part 2: Parts of PersonalityChapter 7: The Conscious Self What is the Conscious Self? Conceptions –William James Self-as-Knower – innermost awareness –Freuds ego involves a conscious observer Definitions of consciousness

4. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayers Personality: A Systems Approach Part 2: Parts of PersonalityChapter 7: The Conscious Self Evolution of Consciousness Jaynes believed human self-reflection began about 400 B.C.E. Before that, people believed the voices they heard inside their heads came from gods. Temple erected to the god Apollo

5. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayers Personality: A Systems Approach Part 2: Parts of PersonalityChapter 7: The Conscious Self Determinism vs. Free Will Free will: The capacity to choose freely. Determinism: Everything you choose has been caused by something that came before. An Unsolved Problem… Free willDeterminism ScienceMurray believed in free will Freud, Skinner were determinists ReligionArminianismCalvinism

6. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayers Personality: A Systems Approach Part 2: Parts of PersonalityChapter 7: The Conscious Self Are there Unconscious Agencies? An agency is a part of personality that exerts control –A super-part combining many functions of personality –Examples: Freuds Id Jungs Anima Some are unconscious

7. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayers Personality: A Systems Approach Part 2: Parts of PersonalityChapter 7: The Conscious Self The Flow Experience …Is a means of structuring consciousness …Two of its characteristics (as examples) –Complete concentration –Low self-consciousness

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