Name: ______________________________________ Date:
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Grade and Section: Grade 11- HUMSS Score:
DEVELOPMENT OF THE WHOLE SELF
Down: Across:
1. These are the biological characteristics that 2. Also known as the "Theory of
Mind".
we inherit from our parents. 3. Composed of spiritual, cognitive,
physical,
and psychosocial aspect
7. He is a psychoanalyst known for his theory 4. shaped by the people around
us, culture,
on psychosocial development of human beings. and practices.
5. Part of the brain which is responsible
for
9. These are impression activated by a judgement, impulse control,
and planning.
stimulus in your mind that is evident from 6. It is the transition between
childhood and
the environment that you are in. adulthood.
8. __________vs. Role Confusion
10. It gives life to our thoughts.
11. These are the way of expressing our
emotions.
12. Behaviors are bodily reaction made
based
on our feelings.
Every individual undergoes different phases of development that form his/her individuality.
Our personality is a product of genetic response that we inherit from our parents and from the
influence of our environment. This environment shaped by the people around us, culture, and
practices that we are being raised in continuously creates social interactions and relationships.
This interaction contributes to who we are today and how we choose and decide for ourselves.
Personality development is complex administration of thoughts, feelings, emotion, and behavior
that influence personal judgement.
As a child, you are dream of a good and satisfying life when you grow up. Your family
becomes your helping hand in nurturing, guiding, and educating yourself. When you reach
adolescence, you experience drastic changes in your physical appearance, cognitive abilities,
social relationship, and emotional behavior. At this stage, our environment becomes part of our
development from which we acquire knowledge and collect information to organize and interpret
different life situations.
According to Erik Erikson, adolescence stage of Psychosocial development, also known as
“identity vs. role confusion” is the stage wherein teens need to develop the sense of self and
personal identity. At this point, teenagers start to have circle of friends in which they build their
trust.
Teenagers also experience adolescence cognitive empathy, known as “theory of mind,” which is
described as having high regards toward the perspective of others and feeling concern for
others. Being adolescents, they tend to foster social cooperation that prevents problems and
leads to avoidance of conflicts with peers. Teenagers are very careful in understanding the
emotions of their friends as they start to create deep trust with them. Sometimes, this leads to
misunderstanding with their family, abuse of prohibited drugs, pre-marital sex, cigarette smoking
and alcohol intake. Based on research, teenagers are commonly high risk-takers and impulsive
due to incomplete development of frontal lobe during adolescence. The frontal lobe is
responsible for judgement, impulse control, and planning. That is why they search for their self-
identify and independence which requires guidance from their parents, relatives, and other
people like teachers with whom they can share their struggles. These experiences and
challenges are part of a process of personality development that adolescents need to
understand. It is necessary for them to examine all the circumstances and opportunities so that
they can deal with them calmly. They must be open-minded to the opinion and advise of other
people in order to shape their future with broader perspective and self-determination.
You cannot escape life challenges so you should know how your thoughts, feelings, and
actions in managing personal agency should be handled. Being an adolescent, you should be
accountable for all your actions because these power triads can either make or break your
motivation to take charge of life. It is up to you on how you will handle it. Remember, your
judgement is based on your views in life and it is rooted on your upbringing.
Thoughts are impression activated by a stimulus in your mind that is evident from the
environment that you are in. This conscious thought occupies emotions that give life to thoughts
and it expressed through feelings. Sometimes when you are too emotional, you could not think
properly because your emotions occupy your thoughts, this means there is lesser space to
analyze the situation because feelings occupy it. Behaviors are bodily reaction made based on
our feelings that result to actions.
There are instances when feelings are faster than emotion and thought. This would result
to fast reaction and realizing the emotion and thought afterwards. Either positive or negative,
feelings result to actions. Emotions can direct and control thoughts that sometimes affect your
consciousness. This can also lead to loss of focus. As a teenager, it is very important to be
focused on your goals. A focused thought will lead to high intelligence. That is why if you are
disturbed with your emotion, try to figure out where the emotion is coming from and it will bring
you back to reality.
Teenagers experience enjoyment and daunting times but it is very important to stay
focused so that they will lead you to the route of your goal. It is not easy to achieve the goal but
if you have self-regulation that will control your emotions, thoughts, and behavior it will help you
to be successful in life. Learning from mistakes and facing challenges with confidence and faith in
God will give you the power to be successful in life.
