Mapúa University

3F Admin. Bldg.
Intramuros, Manila
247 -5000, loc. 1302, 1303

Metacognitive Reading Report # 1

Trainee: Oliver J. Espino Jr. Date: August 25, 2019

Understanding the Self/ Pag-unawa sa Sarili

Self, Self-Concept, and Identity

INSTRUCTIONS: Based on the given reading material, please respond to the items below.
Please do not plagiarize. Also, please use only a single sheet of this template to answer
the given items.

I. Please provide two (2) difficult concepts from the given reading material. No
explanation is needed.

A. Dual-Processing Models

B. Identity-Based Motivation

II. Please provide two (2) insights that you have learned from the given reading
material. In one or two sentences, briefly explain these insights.

A. I used to think that I have already reached the peak of my maturity and
that I am 100% sure of who I really am. However, after reading the
Handbook of Self and Identity I have realized that a person never stops
growing and that life is limitless when it comes to truly understanding and
finding ourselves.

B. I used to think that I could easily read a person’s identity just by looking at
him/her by the way they move, dress, walk, talk, and how they socialize.
Now I have learned that it I cannot conclude someone’s self-concept or
identity just by their physical attributes because there are different factors
that could define a person such as encounters with their personal life or with
society which could have a great impact on a person’s becoming.

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 Mapúa University
3F Admin. Bldg.
Intramuros, Manila
247 -5000, loc. 1302, 1303

III. Raise two (2) possible questions that you find vague in the discussion of the
given reading material. If you cannot provide the required two (2) questions,
suggest a title of an alternative reading materials under the same topic, with
the authors’ name/s, and provide the gist of the same.

A. The brain provides us neural activity that gives us our consciousness and
sense of self, but the brain is an organ. Is the “self” represented by the brain?
Or is it represented by the mind?

B. I have no memories of myself from the moment I was born until my 6th
birthday, it is from the age of 6 that I can start recalling my past. I am quite
sure that nobody in this world has a memory of their infant-toddler days, is
it safe to say that we do not gain an identity or a concept of ourselves from
that point of time in our lives?

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