Ass. in Psych 1100 Unpacking The Self (Physical and Social)

Name: BEA JENINA I.
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Course/Year Level/Section: 1st Year / BASS 1-2
Module 1: Unpacking the Self
Topic 1- 2: The Physical and Sexual Self

I. Learning Activities
1. Activity
Individual reflections of the personal qualities showing the different aspects (physical
and emotional; e.g. between parents and child arguments, boy and girl differences,
couple misunderstanding, etc.) are situated relative to one another and the importance
of each relative to the other.
THE PHYSICAL SELF

The physical self is related to our body just like our physical appearance. It can
be seen based on how we look like as a whole and some might say that it would also
determine if a person is sick, in love or anything that can be seen to our whole physical
appearance or existence in this world as a human being. The physical self is
continuously developing and progressing as an individual grows up. It can be developed
by the different aspects or by the environment where we live in. One of it’s example is
family, this is the 1st one who teaches all the things that a child know as they grew up,
in relation to our physical self, well our parents might dictate us and teach us on what
a girl or boy must wear and how should they act and how should they look like
physically or wholly. An example of this is a family of muslims, they are wearing
something that covers all of the parts of their body most specially their faces, another
one is when you have a dad who is a police, then you are a gay, some acts tough and
wears something masculine or what a boy commonly wears.The same with our peers,
they are the one who influence us to wear something that is according to the newest
trend like croptops and etc. All of these has an effect in the development of our physical
self because the social construct has always been dictating all of us for so many years
ago, that we people must obey because it is the continuous human practices and beliefs
that we’ve gotten used to do and patronize, which in fact it is definitely wrong and we
must take an action to it. Anyone are free to express themselves in whatever they want
to wear or they want to do but we should always remember that it has limitations. But
in some aspects it is definitely true and forgivable that our families, peers and even our
sexual orientation helps us to develop our self physically through the way how they
teach us to what should we eat, in order for us to become healthy,to wear something
decent and appropriate in some gatherings and occasions, lastly they are the one who
boosts our self-esteem about who we are and most specially on how or what we looks
like.
THE SEXUAL SELF

The sexual self is the state of being male and female but it doesn’t mean that we
should just stick to that belief or construct because the sexual self is related to our
gender identity. We can say that yes, doctors can alter the physical characteristics of
sex, but bodily sex does not determine our gender. It is being affected and influenced
by the people around us such as our families, peers and by the perception of other
people when we talk about the distinction of boy and a girl. The same as physical self
we people are being dictated on how we should act, what we wore, even our feelings
or gender expression. They are inhibiting a person for self-expression. One of it’s
example is the way other people threw malicious comments to a gay just by loving
someone the same as his/her sex. But in contrary, those aspects plays a great role in
developing ourselves in physical,sexual, emotional and etc. they helps us to build and
continuously take a progress despite of the dictations of the society. One of it’s example
is through the achievement of becoming a fully realized human, a child enters a system
of relationships, most important of which is the family. Meaning to say, the kind of
family that we are born in, the resources available to us, and the kind of development
that we will have will certainly affect us. So, through all of this, it only means one thing
and that each of us must be given the leeway to express, find and live his identity, as
well as learn to accept who and what we are. Also it is being stated in the topic 2 – the
self , society, and culture that every gender needs to be personally discovered and
asserted and not dictated by culture, the society and of course by the people whose
living in it. We must always learn to assess ourselves and try to analyze all the
situations before making a judgement, as well as accepting individual differences or
uniqueness.

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Name: BEA JENINA I.

Module 1: Unpacking the Self

Topic 1- 2: The Physical and Sexual Self

THE PHYSICAL SELF

THE SEXUAL SELF

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