SELF
SELF from (APA.ORG) - THE TOTALITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL, CONSISTING OF ALL CHARACTERISTIC ATTRIBUTES, CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL.
SELF from (Merriam & Webster) - the union of elements (such as body, emotions, thoughts, and sensations) that constitute the individuality and identity of a person
TRIPARTITE COMPOSITION OF THE SELF -
Thoughts
Behavior
Feelings
THOUGHTS - a lot of different mental activities, including wishes, hopes, plans, predictions, judgments and memories. Thoughts often include words but sometimes they can include pictures, speech, or even smells. Most of the time we don’t notice our thoughts – they go on in the background, helping us make decisions and carry out many tasks automatically. Sometimes, we become aware of our thoughts – for example when we try to work out a puzzle, or remember a specific event, or do a specific task, like write a letter to a friend or learn a new language.
DANIEL KAHNMANN - DESCRIBED AUTOMATIC (FAST) THINKING AS ‘SYSTEM 1’ AND DELIBERATE (SLOW) THINKING AS ‘SYSTEM 2’. He has also written a very successful book ‘Thinking fast and slow’ showing how fast or automatic thinking can lead us to make many mistakes in everyday life.
SYSTEM 1 - AUTOMATIC (FAST) THINKING, means that we can get on with life for most of the time without too much effort. It helps us make decisions quickly, recognise patterns, fill in gaps in information, and carry out well-rehearsed behaviors.
SYSTEM 2 - DELIBERATE (SLOW) THINKING
BEHAVIOUR - an organism's activities in response to external or internal stimuli (apa.org)
FEELINGS - a self-contained phenomenal experience. any experienced sensation, particularly a tactile or temperature sensation (e.g., pain, coldness)
AUTOMATIC THOUGHTS - psychologists have noticed that this CAN HAVE A DIRECT AND REALLY IMMEDIATE IMPACT ON OUR FEELINGS OR EMOTIONS, AND ON OUR BEHAVIORS.
Dr Aaron T.Beck. - An American psychiatrist that highlighted the link between our thoughts, our emotions or feelings, and our behaviors. He worked with individuals with depression and noticed that negative thinking was a core aspect of depression. He proposed that negative thinking both made people feel depressed and made it hard to recover from depression. developed a new form of psychotherapy for depression called Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, or CBT.
negative thinking - was a core aspect of depression
CBT - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - new form of psychotherapy for depression. Rather than focusing on the past, he aimed to use psychotherapy to help tackle depression by changing people’s cognitions (or thoughts) and their behaviors. By changing one, or both, of their cognitions or behaviors, Beck proposed that this would also change their emotions, and improve depression.
SELF from (APA.ORG) - THE TOTALITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL, CONSISTING OF ALL CHARACTERISTIC ATTRIBUTES, CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL.
SELF from (Merriam & Webster) - the union of elements (such as body, emotions, thoughts, and sensations) that constitute the individuality and identity of a person
TRIPARTITE COMPOSITION OF THE SELF -
Thoughts
Behavior
Feelings
THOUGHTS - a lot of different mental activities, including wishes, hopes, plans, predictions, judgments and memories. Thoughts often include words but sometimes they can include pictures, speech, or even smells. Most of the time we don’t notice our thoughts – they go on in the background, helping us make decisions and carry out many tasks automatically. Sometimes, we become aware of our thoughts – for example when we try to work out a puzzle, or remember a specific event, or do a specific task, like write a letter to a friend or learn a new language.
DANIEL KAHNMANN - DESCRIBED AUTOMATIC (FAST) THINKING AS ‘SYSTEM 1’ AND DELIBERATE (SLOW) THINKING AS ‘SYSTEM 2’. He has also written a very successful book ‘Thinking fast and slow’ showing how fast or automatic thinking can lead us to make many mistakes in everyday life.
SYSTEM 1 - AUTOMATIC (FAST) THINKING, means that we can get on with life for most of the time without too much effort. It helps us make decisions quickly, recognise patterns, fill in gaps in information, and carry out well-rehearsed behaviors.
SYSTEM 2 - DELIBERATE (SLOW) THINKING
BEHAVIOUR - an organism's activities in response to external or internal stimuli (apa.org)
FEELINGS - a self-contained phenomenal experience. any experienced sensation, particularly a tactile or temperature sensation (e.g., pain, coldness)
AUTOMATIC THOUGHTS - psychologists have noticed that this CAN HAVE A DIRECT AND REALLY IMMEDIATE IMPACT ON OUR FEELINGS OR EMOTIONS, AND ON OUR BEHAVIORS.
Dr Aaron T.Beck. - An American psychiatrist that highlighted the link between our thoughts, our emotions or feelings, and our behaviors. He worked with individuals with depression and noticed that negative thinking was a core aspect of depression. He proposed that negative thinking both made people feel depressed and made it hard to recover from depression. developed a new form of psychotherapy for depression called Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, or CBT.
negative thinking - was a core aspect of depression
CBT - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - new form of psychotherapy for depression. Rather than focusing on the past, he aimed to use psychotherapy to help tackle depression by changing people’s cognitions (or thoughts) and their behaviors. By changing one, or both, of their cognitions or behaviors, Beck proposed that this would also change their emotions, and improve depression.
