Self-Awareness
1. What is self-awareness?
▪ Self-awareness is the experience of one's own personality or
individuality.
▪ Self-awareness is how an individual consciously knows and understands
their own character, feelings, motives, and desires.
Types of Self-awareness
a) Public self-awareness: This type emerges when people are aware of how
they appear to others. Public self-awareness often emerges in situations
when people are at the center of attention. Public self-awareness can also
lead to evaluation anxiety in which people become distressed, anxious, or
worried about how they are perceived by others.
b) Private self-awareness: This type happens when people become aware of
some aspects of themselves, but only in a private way. For example,
seeing your face in the mirror is a type of private self-awareness.
Decision making
1. What is decision making?
▪ Decision-making is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the
selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible
alternative options.
▪ It could be either rational or irrational.
▪ The decision-making process is a reasoning process based on
assumptions of values, preferences and beliefs of the decision-
maker. Every decision-making process produces a final choice, which
may or may not prompt action.
