Critical Thinking Questions:
Answer these 3 questions in different parts. Use the text book The Personality Puzzle 6th edition written by David C. Funder Chapter 17
1. Is what William James called the I something that psychologists can study? How do we know whether it even exists?
2. The workings of the implicit self are described in this chapter in terms of relational selves, self-esteem, shyness, and self-consciousness. In what other areas do you think the implicit self might be important?
3. Is James’s idea of the I the same as what psychologists now call the procedural self, or is the I something deeper and more mysterious?