Johari Window Bonus Prompt

--Original published at David's Blog

Last week we were assigned to look at the Johari Window website. Our task was to pick five to six traits we thought described us. After we did that we needed to send the link to our website to at least ten other people. Those ten other people then did the same, they picked out five to six traits they thought describe us. After this process was done everyone got almost all of the traits I selected. The only traits that were not selected by my friends was logical and self-conscious. Everything else I picked for myself at least one other person picked out for me. I think this can defiantly be a good measure of other peoples personality. I find this to be true, since there are some things we don’t know about our selfs that the ones around us do. One thing I can say that maybe faulty in this experiment could be how different people think of us in different ways. Depending on how much you are around with the people you gave the survey to their answers can change. Another thing is some people act differently around others. There is a old Japanese saying that everyone has three different “faces” or personalities around others. One is for the public like co workers or class mates the, second is for close friends and family members. The last is the face of the unknown the one you keep to yourself and no one knows about. In conclusion I learned that a lot of people think a lot of different things about me. I think this since I have twenty plus traits other people picked out for me.

Johari Window Results

Johari Window: Extra Credit

--Original published at Carly's College Blog

I was excited and nervous when creating my Johari Window. I was excited to see how similar the traits I picked were to the ones others picked, but nervous in general to see what others think of me. I kind of felt a little vulnerable when describing myself because one of the traits I used was self conscious. I put on the façade, not that I’m cocky or over confident, but that I like who I am and accept myself. That isn’t the case. I hide my emotions from others because I like to come off as strong, and I do not like to be perceived as weak. This is why I would have to call the test invalid. People are going to pick the traits they see in you, but if people don’t know the real you, it would be inaccurate.

This reflected in the answers from my friends. 53% called me energetic. My roommate who sees me behind closed doors, sees me naps for hours every afternoon and was the only person to not pick energetic. I got a lot of traits that surround my outward appearance: bold, cheerful, confident, energetic, proud, self-assertive, and spontaneous. I wonder how the responses would change if I let my guard down more often. I decided it to send it to my aunt that I spend a lot of time with. She pinpointed parts of that I don’t often show to others. She picked sentimental, sympathetic, self conscious, observant, helpful, and complex. I also sent it to a childhood friend whom I’ve known since 1st grade because I wanted to see how her answers would differ from the friends I’ve made at etown. She chose accepting, caring, trustworthy, intelligent, and spontaneous.

here’s the link to my Johari: http://kevan.org/jh/caarpatt99

Johari Bonus Blog

--Original published at Rachel Bickelman's PSY 105 Blog

Doing the Johari window was a fun and informative process. I sent the link to my close friends and family to see if there were similarities or differences between the adjectives people chose. For the most part, the adjectives I chose for myself were not very similar to the ones my friends and family chose for me. I chose more serious attributes like observant and mature but was reminded I have a warm and silly side too. The adjectives known to me and the respondents were: independent, knowledgeable, witty, and organized. It surprised me to see that many people chose the same adjectives. One of the most frequently chosen adjectives I did not select was caring and trustworthy. While I believe myself to be both these things it was interesting that in each case 72% of people chose these descriptors.

I thought the Johari Window was a relatively accurate measure of personality. I thought the adjectives chosen for me by my friends and family were very accurate. It is not always possible to see yourself through others eyes but, using the Johari Window gave me a chance to see what others think of me. I think the Johari Window was especially helpful to those who sent it to their close family and friends since these people would likely know their personality the best. Though it is not a psychometric test of personality, I think it does give true insight to a person’s general behavior and personality.

I learned that a majority people think of me as caring, trustworthy, and intelligent. I also learned that I possess a lot of amicable traits such as warm, kind, and silly. The Johari Window both taught and reassured me that I treat my friends and family the way I want to be treated.

Link to Johari Window: https://kevan.org/johari?view=Rachel%20Bickelman

Johari Window Reflection

--Original published at Sydney’s Side

While picking my own characteristics I chose relaxed, accepting, happy, organized, and friendly. Of those five, the only one that was not chosen by other people was relaxed. Which makes sense because the only time a truly relax is when I’m by myself. There were a variety of characteristics in my blind spot but they were somewhat similar to the traits I picked for myself.

This measure of personality was somewhat accurate but I feel as if it is too general. Some people may only put the traits to be nice but not to be specific. Additionally, unconsciously I may have picked characteristics that would make me look different than what I want other people to view me as. The individuals that responded to my window may have also been doing the same thing. In order to make it more accurate it could have been empirically keyed which means it would ask questions that do not directly relate to the question it is asking. Many of the people I asked to fill out the johari window were my friends and family which makes them all biased about me. If I had asked people that may not like me, I would have gotten different answers most likely.

Some characteristics that were in my blind spot included bold, calm, caring, independent, patient, and able. The traits that most people picked were dependable, intelligent, kind, and trustworthy. These results did not teach me much about myself because they were similar to the traits I picked for myself.

https://kevan.org/johari?view=sydneyleete

Johari Window Bonus Blog Prompt

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As part of our exploration of personality, each of you completed an online Johari Window. This process helps you learn how similar your self-perceptions are to how others see you. For this bonus blog post, I want you to discuss what that process was like for you, how similar your self-description was to what others selected, how valid of a measure of personality do you think this is, and what, if anything, you learned about yourself in this process. Include a link to your Johari window in your post. This bonus post is due Tuesday, 11/13, at 8pm and is worth 1.5 points of extra credit. The post must be at least 250 words long to receive credit. Be sure to use the tags “Bonus Posts” and “Personality.” I look forward to seeing what you write!

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Bonus Blog Prompt – Theoretical Lenses in Psychology

--Original published at Tyler's Ideas

Miguel has been struggling with his coursework lately. He has felt very tired in recent weeks and has found it difficult to focus on his studies. Even though he is always tired, he has trouble falling asleep at night, is irritable during the day, and picks fights with his roommates. He is a bit of a perfectionist and gets mad at himself when he makes even tiny mistakes. It’s gotten to the point where he doubts his ability to do anything right.

Psychodynamic: Psychodynamics focuses on internal drives. The fact that he is a perfectionist and not doing well in school will most likely make him irritable therefore causing him to pick fights with his roommate.

Behaviorist: A behaviorist may state that through examination and analysis. His lack of sleep could be the reason he is irritable and picking fights with his roommate. Without correction, Miguel will probably continue this behavior. The fact that he is a perfectionist may mean that he has OCD.

Humanistic: Miguel may not be reaching is full potential and therefore may be having trouble because of that. Humanistic psychology emphasizes the approach to study the whole person and the uniqueness of each individual. Due to the fact that Miguel is not performing to his greatest ability, he could be getting mad at himself for his mistakes.

Cognitive: Cognitive psychology focuses on mental processes. His lac of sleep has most likely slowed down his cognition and therefore weakened things like attention, language use, problem solving, creativity, and thinking. All these reasons may lead to a struggle with classwork. Therefore the reason he is struggling in school is due to his lack of sleep and slow mental processing.

Neuroscience: Due to Miguel’s lack of sleep, his brain is most likely not functioning correctly. He could potentially be suffering from insomnia which would explain his inability to sleep, bipolar disorder, which would explain his irritability, or OCD, which would explain his need for perfection.

Cultural: The pressure from Miguel’s surrounding culture may lead him to be hard on himself when he does not perform to the best of his ability. If his culture demands good grades and he isn’t doing well, it could put pressure on him causing him to stay up at night and become irritated.

BONUS POST- Describing Miguel’s Behavior

--Original published at Site Title

“Miguel has been struggling with his coursework lately. He has felt very tired in recent weeks and has found it difficult to focus on his studies. Even though he is always tired, he has trouble falling asleep at night, is irritable during the day, and picks fights with his roommates. He is a bit of a perfectionist and gets mad at himself when he makes even tiny mistakes. It’s gotten to the point where he doubts his ability to do anything right.”

Psychodynamic: Psychodynamically, Miguel’s behaviors could be explained by repressed memories from his childhood, or even unconscious desires. It is possible that as a child, Miguel was not very good at school and would get bullied because of it, or his parents would get angry at him and push him to be better. Now as his school work starts to pick up, he begins to struggle and doubts his abilities because he thinks back to those hard times in his life.

Behavioral: From a behavioral perspective we take a look at Miguel’s observable behaviors. It has been seen that Miguel is always tired due to his lack of sleep which causes him to be irritable during the day and he also picks fights with his roommates. One would also be able to see Miguel’s angry outbursts when he makes even the tiniest mistakes due to his perfectionist personality.

Humanistic: The humanistic perspective focuses on the individuals worth. Based on the overview of Miguel, we can conclude that he probably has poor self worth right now as he gets mad at himself easily. Being a perfectionist could be counted as a strength, but during this time in Miguel’s life I think it would be seen more as a weakness contributing to his anger and irritability.

Biological(Neuroscience): From a neuroscience perspective we look behavioral genetics or tendencies. It is possible that one of his parents or another family member has had trouble sleeping or even suffered from sleep illness and it has been passed down to him. He could have also developed his perfectionist personality from a family member as well. Evolutionary psychology, or adaptations are also looked at when using the neuroscience approach. If it was a family member that as passed on the sleeping problems, over time it is possible that they have adapted and learned to live this way without it effecting their everyday lives, and over time Miguel adapt as well. In addition, Miguel could participate in a sleep study where they look at what parts of his brain are active while he is trying to sleep to get to the roots of his problem.

Social-Cultural: From a social-cultural perspective it could be seen very disrespectful from Miguel’s roommates that he is picking fights with them especially if they differ in social/cultural backgrounds. His aggression and picking fights could also be a result of seeing his parents argue as a child, so he thinks that is what is normal and accepted by society. Also depending on the culture, it is expected to be perfect and if mistakes are made, they can be punished, so that could contribute to Miguel’s personality and anger issues as well.

Extra Credit: Theoretical Lenses

--Original published at Bailey PSY 105 Blog

Psychodynamic: Psychodynamically, Miguel could be experiencing something akin to the ‘snowball effect.’ It is possible that missed a few hours of sleep one night, then wasn’t able to get to bed early the next night. This could have formed the pattern of behavior that has now led to him not being able to sleep when he should be. This lack of sleep could also result in his aggression and irritability to those around him.

Behavioral: Miguel’s coarse behavior toward his friends and roommates could be a result of many things. One being his lack of sleep having an affect on his patience, and another possibility is that he was rude to them once, and they allowed it, so now he feels as though there are no repercussions. When Miguel’s friends did not reprimand or confront him for his initial behavior, he likely realized that it was acceptable to treat them this way and felt no need to alter his way of dealing with them. This escalated into him constantly being short and irritable with everyone around him.

Humanistic: As stated above, when Miguel’s companions continuously allowed their own mistreatment, Miguel may have placed a lower value on human correction or interaction. He may have seen a group of people that were allowing him to do things he knew he shouldn’t, and subconsciously began to see them as a group that did not care enough about him to correct his mannerisms.

Cognitive: Miguel’s attention span is likely altered because of his lack of sleep, therefor making him quicker to snap at or argue with his roommates. This also likely has an affect on his self worth because he cannot think clearly enough to recognize why he is making mistakes in class or on homework. This could limit him from seeing a way out of the hole he has dug himself into, and thus make him increasingly more critical of himself.

Neuroscience: Neurologically, Miguel’s brain function is likely altered or slowed because of his lack of sleep. Sleep deprivation can lead to the brain cells not communicating effectively, and therefore causing lapses in his mental judgement and processing. This is likely the cause of his struggle in school and lack of patience with his classmates.

Cultural: Culturally, one explanation for Miguel’s immense pressure on himself is him coming from an academically rigorous or notoriously successful background. He could be from a place where failure of any kind is magnified and unacceptable, and as a result he is still placing these pressures on himself even though he is away from his home and his family.

Bonus Blog Post- Miguel

--Original published at Gracie's Blog

From a psychodynamic approach, Miguel seems to have had trouble in the past, and due to his unconscious mind he is having trouble falling asleep and irritable during the day. If something dramatic in his past happened, he could be thinking about past experiences or having memories which distract him. Miguel’s unconscious mind is uncontrollable, making it hard for Miguel to overcome his behavior. Certain instances during the day may trigger memories or thoughts about his past.

From a behavioral approach, we learn that Miguel is a perfectionist. Since Miguel is a perfectionist, people can physically see the way he reacts to failure or mistakes. If someone was watching Miguel they could observe that Miguel gets angry when he feels what he did is not perfect. Miguel gets mad at himself after messing up, which is something someone can see on the outside.

From a humanistic perspective Miguel needs more sleep and he attempts to get more sleep, but has no luck. Due to his lack of sleep, Miguel has trouble controlling his anger and how fast he gets irritated. Miguel’s studies are also hard for him because he is not getting the sleep he needs to focus academically. sleep is an important role in a human’s life, and without much sleep Miguel’s behavior does not improve.

From a cognitive approach on Miguel’s behavior, we discover that Miguel gets angry quickly and over little things. Miguel does not take the time to think instances over to react the way he should. Cognitively, Miguel does not have good concentration and struggles with school work so he may not interpret certain subjects the way he should. Miguel also gets in fights with his roommates possibly because he does not think before he speaks and says stuff to make his roommates upset.

From a the neuroscience perspective, Miguel seems to have a short temper and quick to react to certain instances. For example, Miguel gets angry when he does not do things the way he thinks he should. Miguel’s emotions show when he does not do something the way he should, so he doubts himself and that causes him to not try. If someone feels that they cannot do anything right, they start to think they are not good enough. A possible reason why Miguel reacts this way may be because Miguel was always praised for doing such a good job when he was with his family, but now without the encouragement, one little mistake could make Miguel feel like a failure.

From a social-cultural perspective, Miguel’s anger that he shows in public due to not achieving everything could possibly be taken differently depending on someone’s culture. Miguel does not hide his emotions and lashes out on his roommates making it look as if he does not know how to approach a problem like most humans. The way Miguel acts could represent what he saw as a child and he may not see a problem with the way he talks to his roommates, and his roommates take what he says the wrong way.

Bonus Blog: Theoretical Lenses in Psychology

--Original published at HuntersCollegeBlog

Using the theoretical lenses, I’ll explain Miguel’s behavior:

Psychodynamic: Miguel may have problems falling asleep at night and focusing, because his psychodynamic unconscious mind could be keeping him up, forcing him to think about everything else around him that he has to do. His unconscious mind could also be telling him that he’s not good enough, which is why he may think he can’t do anything right, and why he gets mad when he makes a small mistake.

Behavioral: Miguel could’ve picked up his perfectionist tendencies from someone else. He could see them being perfectionist, and not even realize that he too is trying to be like that. When he sees someone else make a mistake, he gets mad too when he makes one because perfectionist are suppose to be perfect. He could be copying their behavior. He may not think much of it, but if he’s seeing other people act the same way, he could be picking up those behaviors from them, and not even realizing it.

Humanistic: This is focused on personal growth, so if Miguel doesn’t believe that he’s capable of growing, then he won’t. He needs to accept the fact that mistakes are apart of personal growth, and he can’t let that affect him negatively. He doesn’t think he can do anything right, because he isn’t focused on that aspect of personal growth, and he isn’t telling himself that he’s valuable, whether he’s a perfectionist or not.

Cognitive: His thinking patterns could be affecting how he receives information. If he’s constantly thinking about something else while the teacher is giving a lecture during class, he wont be able to remember everything they said, so that will affect his ability to remember, and it will interfere with how he’s processing information, (only in bits and pieces if he’s going in and out of focus). This may also be affecting how he thinks of himself, since cognitive psychology is all about the brain.

Cultural: Some ways of how he’s acting could be based on which cognitive processes are universal and specific. Maybe he specifically was told as a young child that in order to make his parents happy, he had to do everything right, and had to pay attention to everything, and he wasn’t allowed to ever get upset, so its affecting him now, because he isn’t the perfectionist he was taught to be, and he’s snapping at people, which could’ve been a big no no when he was growing up. He could be unfocused as well because as a child he was so used to having to pay attention to everything, that now it’s catching up with him, and he isn’t able to stay on track.

Neuroscience: This includes biological perspective. His behavior could be exactly like his parents’, due to genetics. Maybe one of his parents gets angry easily, and tends to snap. Maybe one of them has a short attention span as well, which could be why Miguel can’t focus in class.