The Psychology of Self-Esteem

certain shapes as triangles or certain colors as red when a triangular shape or a red patch is not perceptually present and actu ...

characteristic they have in common. The next stage is when he learns from his elders to call that particular kind of object (tha ...

A concept, once formed, refers not merely to the particular concretes which happen to give rise to it, but to all concretes poss ...

Entailed in the conceptual method of functioning is the ability to regard concretes as instances or units of the class to which ...

mal is capable of monitoring and reflecting on its own mental operations of critically evaluating its own mental activity, of de ...

Chaper Four— 4. Man: A Being of Volitional Consciousness The Principle of Volition One of the characteristics of the majority of ...

this is a fact of crucial significance. One would not learn that man's biologically distinguishing attribute and his basic means ...

countless separate activities involved in the normal process of an organism's physical maturation. Organic self- regulation is t ...

In man, both life and consciousness reach their most highly developed form. Man, who shares with animals the sensory-perceptual ...

Now consider the self-conscious level of self-regulation. The basic function of consciousness—in animals and in man—is awareness ...

mind; he must choose to aim at understanding. On the conceptual level, the responsibility of self-regulation is his. The act of ...

in full mental focus. His choice is to evade that knowledge or to exert the effort of raising the level of his awareness. The de ...

Man's freedom to focus or not to focus, to think or not to think, is a unique kind of choice that must be distinguished from any ...

choose to generate this effort. He discovers that, on this new level of awareness, he is not infallible; error is possible; cogn ...

ful disintegration, the act of subverting the proper function of consciousness, of setting the cognitive function in reverse and ...

must be maintained volitionally; he retains the power to betray it. In each new issue he encounters, he still must choose to thi ...

drawing final conclusions until his mind has cleared. In this manner, he can remain in control even under acute stress. (It is w ...

sacrifice his reason to his desires. In this issue, man is inviolately a self-regulator. The social environment can provide him ...

on the responsibility of forming his convictions consciously and of constantly checking them against the facts of reality. A thi ...

mentally—in this manner. But this would represent the destruction, not the "conditioning," of a child's mind; and this is not wh ...