TSAP 2 Flashcards
(39 cards)
English Philosopher and physician
john locke
“Tabula Rasa” means
blank state
The mind in its hypothetical blank or empty state before receiving outside impressions.
tabula rasa
self is what? john locke
self is consciousness
who said tabula rasa?
john locke
who said “self is consciousness”?
john locke
a thinking, intelligent being with the ability to reason and reflect.
person
perceives themself as the same entity across different times and places.
person
being aware of thinking, and it always accompanies thinking, making it essential to the process.
Consciousness
enables the belief that we remain the same identity through time and place.
Consciousness
Locke’s theory bottom line
The self is not tied to any body or substance, only existing through memory of past experiences.
Scottish philosopher and empiricist
David Hume
nothing is possible through sensory experience, knowledge is gained through experiencing
Empiricism
he argues there is no self.
David Hume
Basic sensations of experience (e.g., pain, pleasure, heat, cold, happiness, grief, fear, exhilaration).
Impressions
Copies of impressions that are thoughts and images, derived from impressions, and removed from reality.
Ideas
The self we experience is fictional.
It is a mental construct used to organize experiences.
This “self” has no real existence.
Fictional Self
The self does not exist as a unified entity.
All experiences, including the sense of self, are just perceptions.
These perceptions don’t form a permanent self-identity over time.
Hume’s Belief on the Self
Austrian psychologist, known as the Father of Psychoanalysis.
Sigmund Freud
Dominant influence in psychology and therapy from the 20th to 21st century.
Sigmund Freud
- Governed by the reality principle.
- Rational, practical, and adapts to social environments.
- Controls the pressures of the unconscious self, which seeks immediate gratification.
Conscious self:
- Governed by the pleasure principle.
- Aggressive, destructive, unrealistic, and instinctual.
- Both conscious and unconscious selves seek immediate gratification and tension reduction.
- Goal: To make the unconscious self conscious.
Unconscious self:
represents awareness and how individuals deal with the external world.
The conscious mind (tip of the iceberg)
Affects observable behavior and serves as a repository for past experiences, repressed memories, fantasies, and urges.
Subconscious/unconscious mind
