Person Public Self Consciousness– awareness of the self as it
is viewed by others
-is a being that has certain capacities or attributes
such as reason, morality, consciousness and being a
part of a culturally established form of social
relations such as kinship, ownership of property or
legal responsibility.
Personal Development – process which persons
reflect upon themselves, understand who they are,
accept what they discovered, and learn/unlearn new
sets of values, attitudes, behavior, and thinking skills
to reach fullest potentials
Personality – individual differences in characteristic
patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.
3 DOMAINS OF PERSONALITY
Physical
- body and pain, motor, sensory skills, physical
health (height, talent, posture)
Psychosocial
- capacity to learn, speak, understand, reason, and to
create (thoughts, decisions, creativity)
Cognitive
- social interaction with other people,
emotions,attitudes and self identity, personality,
beliefs, values (likes, spirituality, roles)
Human Development:
Heredity – inborn traits passed on by the
generations of offsprings from both sides of the
biological parents’ family
Environment – world outside ourselves and the
experiences result from contact from external world
Maturation – natural progression of brain and the
body affects the physical, cognitive and psychosocial
dimension of a person
The Self
– Persons essential being that distinguish
between them from others
– Qualities that make one individual unique
Schema – mental concept that informs a person
about what to expect from a variety of experiences
and situations
Self Concept– individuals belief about him or herself,
including attributes and who and what the self os
Private Self Consciousness – tendency to introspect
and examine ones innerself and feelings
Self Esteem -individuals sense of his or her value of
worth, or the extent to which a person values,
approves of, appreciates, prizes, or likes him or
herself
Attitude
- Set of emotions, beliefs, and behaviors
toward a particular object, person, thing, or
event
Attitude Affects our..
 Thoughts – images or mental activity that
occur as a response to a trigger (like an
action or event)
 Feeling - emotional side of someones
character; emotional responses or
tendencies to respond
 Behavior – any observable overt movement
in response to a particular situation or
stimulus. Way in which one acts or conducts
itself towards others.
Developmental Task
-task which arise in social context during an
individual’s lifetime.
Robert Havinghurst – proposed developmental task
1. Achieving new & more mature relations w age-
mates of both sexes
2. Achieving a masculine or feminine social role.
3. Accepting one’s physique and using the body
effectively
4. Achieving emotional independence or parents
and other adults
5. Preparing for marriage and family life
6. Preparing for economic life
7. Acquiring a set of values and an ethical system
as a guide to behavior, developing an ideology
8. Desiring and achieving socially responsible
behavior
 Developmental Task Stages
Learning – basic and continues throughout life span.
Growth and Development occurs in six stages
1. Infancy and Later Childhood – 0-3yrsold
- Learning to walk
- Learning to take solid foods
- Learning to talk
- Learning to control the elimination of body
wastes
- Learning sex differences and sexual
modesty
- Forming concepts and learning language to
describe social and physical reality
- Getting ready to read
2. Middle and Late Childhood – 3-12yrsold
- Learning physical skills necessary for
ordinary games
- Building wholesome attitudes toward
oneself as a growing organism
- Learning to get along with age-mates
- Learning an appropriate masculine or
feminine social role
- Developing fundamental skills in reading,
writing, and calculating
- Developing concepts necessary for
everyday living
- Developing conscience, morality and a scale
of values
- Achieving personal independence
- Developing attitudes toward social groups
3.
and institutions
Adolescence – 12-20yrsold
- Achieving new & more mature relations
- Achieving a masculine or feminine social
role
- Accepting one’s physique and using the
body effectively
- Preparing for marriage and family life
- Preparing for an economic career
- Acquiring a set of values and an ethical
system as a guide to behavior; developing
ideology
- Desiring and achieving socially responsible
behavior
4. Early Adulthood – 20-45yrsold
- Selecting a mate
- Achieving a masculine or feminine social
role
- Learning to live with a marriage partner
- Starting a new family
- Rearing children
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Managing a home
Getting started in an occupation
- Taking on a civic responsibility
- Finding a congenial social group
5. Middle Stage – 40-65yrsold
- Achieving adult civic and social
responsibility
- Establishing and maintaining an economic
standard of living
- Assisting teenage children to become
responsible and happy adults
- Developing adult leisure-time activities
- Relating oneself to one’s spouse as a person
- Accepting and adjusting to the physiologic
changes or middle age
- Adjusting to aging parents
6. Late Maturity – 65 above
- Adjusting to decreasing physical strength
and health
- Adjusting to retirement and reduced
income
- Adjusting to death of a spouse
- Establishing an explicit affiliation with one’s
age group
- Meeting social and civil obligations
- Establishing satisfactory physical living
arrangement
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Puberty – beginning of adolescence
-Marked by dramatic changes in hormone
levels and physical appearance
Moral Development
- Kohlbergs
1.PreConventional
-were told do so
stage 1: Obedience & Punishment (fear to
be caught)
stage 2: Self Interest Orientation (whats in
it for me?)
2. Conventional
- focuses on our roles to please other
people
- thoughts of trying for others
stage 3: Interpersonal accord and Harmony
(social roles)
stage 4: Authority & Social Order -
maintaining orientation (obeying laws to
maintain functional society)
3. Post Conventional
- common good for ideal society
- not for your own benefit but for what is
right
Psychosocial Development
- Erick Erickson
stage 5: Social Contract Orientation (laws
- based on how we interact with other
are viewed as social contracts to promote
people
greater world)
- conflicts in each stages to experience
stage 6: Universal Ethical Principles
virtues

Cognitive Development 0-1 Trust (Infant)

- Jean Piagets
1. Sensorimotor (0-2)
- direct contact 1-3 Will (Toddler)
- object permeance & separation anxiety
2. PreOperational (2-6)
- usage of symbols (words, images)
- does not reason logically 3-5 Purpose (Preschooler)
- ability to pretend
- egocentric
3. Concrete Operational (7-12)
- can think logically 5-13 Competence (Gradeschooler)
- can add and subtract
- understand conservation
4. Formal Operational (12)
- can reason abstractly
- think in hypothetical terms 13-21 Fidelity (Teenager)

Psychosexual Development
- Sigmund Freud
3 Personas 21-39 Love (Young Adult)
1. ID - instinctual, pleasure seeking
2. Ego - controls our demand, mediator,
impulses
3. Superego - tells about ideal world (you
can be better)
5 Stages:
1. Oral Stage (0-1) 40-65 Care (Middle Age Adult)
- mouth (sucking, eating, biting)
2. Anal Stage (1-3)
- releasing and holding feces
3. Phallic Stage (3-5 or 5)
- genitals (masturbation, penis envy,
internalization)
4. Latency Stage (5-6) 65 Wisdom (Older Adult)
- none focuses on body bc of other interests
5. Genital Stage (Puberty onwards)
- revival of sexual interest
- finding mature relationship