Nature vs Nurture (Week - 1)

the source of person consciousness. It is the agent responsible for an individual's thoughts and actions.

Self

referred to as the set of behaviors, feelings, thoughts, and motives that identifies an individual

Personality

one's abstract and general idea about him/herself

self-concept

driven by pleasure principle

Id

provide a man some guidelines on how to behave accordingly while he fulfilled his pleasure

Ego

holds our moral judgments or concept of right and wrong

superego

It is widely used psychological model that categorizes personality into five broad dimensions.

The Big Five Personality Traits (OCEAN MODEL)

Measures how creative, imaginative, down to earth or pragmatic someone is.

Openness

Measures preference for an organized approach to life in contrast to a spontaneous one.

Conscientiousness

Measures a tendency to seek stimulation in the external world, the company of others, and to express positive emotions.

Extraversion

Relates to a focus on maintaining positive social relations, being friendly, compassionate, and cooperative.

Agreeableness

Measures the tendency to experience mood swings and emotions such as guilt, anger, anxiety, and depression.

Neuroticism

"Know Thyself"

Socrates

"An unexamined life is not worth living"

Socrates

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of wisdom"

Socrates

An individual could learn more by studying others and that he/she can do this by engaging himself/herself to reading books.

"Read Thyself"

Thomas Hobbes

It is in the mind that we know everything about ourselves like our identity, passion, interest, feelings, and/or intellect, thus everything that we are comes from the mind.

"The mind is the seat of consciousness"

Rene Descartes

Who is the Father of Modern Philosophy ?

Rene Descartes

Who is the Father of psychoanalysis?

Sigmund Freud