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Lecture #1 Response

--Original published at CatherinesCollegeBlog

According to a psychodynamic perspective, Miguel may be having problems because of early childhood experiences with failure. These previous experiences may have created a sense of doubt in his own abilities that has carried through his life so far. According to a behavioral perspective, Miguel could be depressed based on his recent observable behaviors. He is constantly tired, cannot fall asleep as easily at night, is noticeably irritable, and often gets in fights with others. These are common signs of depression in others and are all observable without having to understand or focus on internal thoughts. According to a humanistic perspective, Miguel does not feel like the best version of himself at the moment. Although he is inherently good, Miguel currently sees himself as unworthy of enjoying life and experiencing happiness. He may need to strengthen his relationships with others who could provide more of a support system for him. According to a cognitive perspective, Miguel may have something internally wrong with his brain. The mental processes that should be aiding his emotions and reactions to certain situations are failing him as he overreacts to little mistakes or fights with friends. According to the biological, or neuro perspective, his parents may have also experienced times of depression that were passed on to his generation. The genetic aspect of this perspective suggests that the behaviors Miguel displays may be a direct result of his own bloodline. According to the cultural perspective, Miguel may be feeling depressed, frustrated, and tired lately because it is common for other people in his group to feel overwhelmed and beaten down in stressful situations. Perhaps the people in his surrounding culture are not accustomed to handling difficult circumstances, so when they are presented with challenges, they cannot handle it the best way.

First Video Lecture Psych

--Original published at Loretta Gabrielle

Today we learned about the unconscious mind and how to explain why the behavior is happening which the person may not be aware of. This part of psychodynamic can lead to what Miguel has been struggling with. At looking at Freud’s beginning of psychodynamic it can be questioned at to whether Miguel had a traumatizing childhood which was put out of his memory as a child to help protect himself. Was there a trigger he is unaware of? After psychodynamic we looked at behavioralism which focuses on his observable behavior, lashing out and irritable. When looking at both psychodynamic and behavioral we can also view the Humanistic viewpoint which focuses on personal growth and freedom.

From this lesson and the example above I can draw the conclusion that Miguel’s Locus of control in regards to internal focus and external focus doesn’t work to praise him for doing work and having a good outcome but rather blaming himself for not succeeding. He continuously get’s mad at himself and thinks very little of his accomplishments.

Breaking down the problems: 

Felt very tired in recent weeks and has found it difficult to focus on his studies- Psychodynamic comes into play with the unconscious mind and the best solution for this in my opinion is Talk Therapy.

Has trouble falling asleep at night- I am going to turn to anxiety for this one, with all of the additional stresses in his life it can cause anxiety to fall asleep despite him being tired. This will relate to psychodynamic and the unconscious mind from a childhood event or relationship.

Irritable during the day and picks fights with his roommates- this is most likely caused from the sleep and from the Humanistic psychology where the words being said and the experience of the words being said are two different things based off of interpretation. There could be a disconnect of communication.

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: This part focuses on the Locus of control which is found that more people with depression look to blame themselves more.

 

Bonus Post

--Original published at JD's Blog

Completing the Johari Window was an eye opening experience. We all spend a lot of time thinking about how other people act, but sometimes it is good to reflect on yourself. After I completed the Johari Window it was really interesting to see how peoples thoughts lined up with mine. People agreed with four out of the six things I choose to describe myself. They thought I was friendly, happy, helpful and silly. It was very cool to see all of the other personality traits that people associated me with. Looking at all of the different descriptions really made me look back at myself and think about all of the times I exemplified each trait. It was relaxing and a great self-reflection. The two things I picked that no one else agreed with were observant and idealistic. This made me realize that I might not be as creative as I saw myself as. I am planning on using that information to try and be more creative and more observant. But I will also be concentrating more one being all of the things people say I already am. It was nice to know that other people pick up on things that I may not when I am around them. I hope that I can one day be all of the tings on that list. After learning what we did about someone’s personality and how it can be affected of affect others.  Thought that was very interesting too. I learned a lot about myself during this process.

 https://kevan.org/johari?view=j.d.+sterbens

Bonus Post

--Original published at Emily Garvin's Psych Blog

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.

I sent the Johari window link to my friends and family and got a decent amount of responses back. I was intrigued to see what others would say about me and if they would match the perceptions I already have about myself. For my six character traits I chose caring, dependable, friendly, helpful, kind, and trustworthy. It was difficult for me to choose personality traits to describe myself. It is hard for me to pick words to describe myself because I don’t really know how others view me. I was very surprised and honored by my top percentages. My top percentages included dependable (60%), loving (53%), and trustworthy (66%). I was surprised that 2 out of my top 3 were character traits that I chose. I was also honored that my friends and family thought so highly of me that they also chose these traits to describe me.

I think this test is a valid measure of personality because it allows you to get judged by your peers who know you better than some random questionnaire test online. I also think that a test like this is a great for someone’s morality. Personally, made me feel loved and appreciated by all of my friends and I got to see what they truly think of me. I also learned that people really think I am trustworthy, dependable person who cares and genuinely care about others.

Johari Window Post

--Original published at *Psych 105*

When we were initially given the Johari Window assignment, I wasn’t exactly sure what it was. The directions were straightforward, yet I didn’t get what the outcome of the whole thing was. I chose my adjectives, sent out the link and called it a day. The next day I checked the window and was thoroughly surprised at what I saw. The initial adjectives that I had chosen were: dependable, giving, kind, accepting, patient, and wise. Upon returning to my window, I found that 11 people had responded and many of their responses were different than my own. The list within my blind spot was rather extensive, but mainly consisted synonyms of the initial words I chose. Of the 11 people that responded, 72% said I was trustworthy, 63% said loving, and 54% said intelligent and caring. These were all characteristics I see in myself, however, it didn’t occur to me to choose them for my window. It was comforting to see that these are the things that people find the most memorable about me. That is also not to say that there weren’t any surprising adjectives chosen either. 18% of people said that I was mature and spontaneous, and 36% said I was dependable. It was a little bit of shock that so many people said I was spontaneous as it isn’t necessarily a word I would have on my shortlist of adjectives that describe my personality. This whole experience gave me a new perspective as to how my personality is presented to the people I am closest with. The aspects of me that I don’t think present themselves actually do, whether I know it or not.

Something I have come to understand about the answers of the various individuals is that each entry was heavily influenced by the type of relationship that I had with him or her. Each person that received the link was either grouped into childhood friends, college friends or family. In comparison, the friends gave answers that speak to my quirky but caring side, and the family members spoke to the characteristics that I typically choose for myself. That being said, the validity of the test can vary from situation to situation. The responses that are given depend heavily on the individuals asked to partake in it, and what your relationship is to them. I feel as though my Johari window is pretty accurate. I received input from people that have known me my whole life, from college, from a school setting, from a social setting and those that I have lived with both in the short and long term. The variety of relationships allows for different characteristics to be prominent, which in turn creates a more comprehensive assessment.

 

Johari Window Bonus Post

--Original published at Pisacane Perspectives

Link to my Johari Window:  https://kevan.org/johari?view=pisacanea

I think Johari Windows are a good introduction to a person’s personality. They give you a general idea of who they are, and what they think of themselves versus what others see them as. It’s not too in depth however, and I found that all the adjectives (at least on this particular website) were positive. There are less desirable and even neutral traits that factor into who we are as people. I feel that these are of equal importance, even though it may be harder for the participants to be honest about picking them since this was not anonymous. Sometimes our flaws or shortcomings stick out just as much as our better qualities, though.

With that said, this assignment still taught me a lot about how I come across to others. Some traits that were popular for me were dependable and witty, which didn’t come to mind when picking traits for myself. I was happy to see that people thought of me that way and I was very surprised as well. I was also surprised that the qualities I wanted myself to be and valued in a person made it onto the list such as maturity and intelligence. I wasn’t surprised because I didn’t think that I was those things, I was more surprised that others noticed. Overall, I think this showed a lot about how I come across as a person, but it doesn’t give anyone the full picture of who I am.

 

Bonus Blog – Johari Window

--Original published at Hope's PSY105 Blog

The Johari Window was an interesting experience in finding out what people think my personality is like.  The six words I picked to describe myself were accepting, complex, independent, observant, self-conscious, and sympathetic.  There are others I believe are true, but these six were the most prevalent.  All these traits are known by at least one other person.  The one with the highest number in the arena area?  Self-conscious, which six people agreed with.  Accepting and complex each had five people agree.

I liked seeing what other people thought.  Being that it could be anonymous, I sent it to two fairly large groups of people to see what their opinions were.  One group I had been in for a year and a half, the other had only been about a month.  Both groups have people who believe I am helpful, complex, trustworthy, and mature.  In the group I have been in for a longer time, however, people see me as an extrovert.  In the smaller group that I have been in for only a month, people thought I was more introverted.  There are many people in both groups who think I’m friendly, with fifty percent of the people who completed the Johari Window choosing friendly to describe me.  I learned that people think so much more of me than I think of myself.  A lot of the things that people did say, things like confident, dependable, caring, and happy, really caught me by surprise.

I think this was an accurate way to evaluate personality.  You choose what you think of yourself, but when you ask others, they choose what they think of you.  It depends on how you act around other people, and that influences what they choose, but for the most part I believe this was an accurate way to evaluate personality.

https://kevan.org/johari?view=hopee1212

 

EC JOhari

--Original published at CurtisCollegeBlog

So I completed the Johari window last week, and I filled it out how I viewed myself. I put clever, complex, energetic, extroverted, logical, self-conscious. Every trait that I picked, ended up getting picked at least once by someone else, so at least I know myself, or people agree with me on my personality.  Also nothing that I picked was not picked by others. I did like to see some of the other answers that people gave me, so that I know what people think of me. Most of the ones in my blind spot weren’t surprising to me at all. Like, I would use some of them to loosely describe myself. One that came off kind of shocking to me was trustworthy. I’m not saying I’m not trustworthy or anything, because I am, but the people who I had fill this out haven’t really had anything to trust me with, so I didn’t think that would come up. My most dominant trait was friendly, and it was voted upon by over half the people I asked even though I didn’t choose for myself. Instead, I chose a synonym for it, extroverted, which was voted upon a couple of times. Another trait that I could see for myself that a lot of others voted for was silly, I am generally a jokester and like to make others laugh so I could see why that would be a vote. Overrall, I like this window, because of how it compares how you view yourself versus how others see you. I think this would probably work better if there were less options and you were allowed to pick as many traits as applicable rather than 6. The not known to others section would definitely have more traits inside of it if that were the case.

Bonus Post – Johari Window

--Original published at marybraun99

For the Johari Window assignment, I chose to pick 5 people I was extremely close with, and 5 people that I didn’t know very well, such as people that were in my class. I did this to see if the people who I didn’t know much had about the same idea as those I am very close with. I thought it would be interesting to see.

During this process, when I started to pick out the 5 words I thought described me it was hard because I thought I fit in the middle of most of the categories, rather than specifically fitting perfectly into a few.

After sending the link to those to pick out traits, I was surprised that almost all of the words that I picked were picked by others too, even though many other words I would never see myself as, is what others put.

It was interesting to see that even those I didn’t know extremely well, they still picked the same words as those that I knew well. I thought the answers were going to be drastically different, however, they weren’t.

There were many places that more than one person picked the same word, but when looking at them I was not sure if they even fit me. It was interesting to see how others would describe me, versus how I would describe myself.

A lot of times people wonder how they look from others point of view, and I think by doing this exercise it almost in a way is like looking in from others perspectives. You see how you look in a way that others see you, rather than just picking words out that you would use to describe yourself.

It almost makes you feel warm in a way, knowing that different people think the same thing about you, and that almost verifies that you are like that, because if it is two people you know, that have never met each other before, but still pick the same personality traits to describe you it feels like that must be a true personality trait of mine.

I think I learned that even when you are having a hard day, and think people see you as a bad person, by seeing how many people chose the same good traits, it makes you realize you see yourself completely different than others see you, which makes you feel more confident.

I really enjoyed this exercise, it helps you learn a lot about yourself, and how others perceive you.

This is the link to my Johari Window…. https://kevan.org/johari?view=mary+braun

 

Johari Window Bonus Blog Prompt:

--Original published at Sierra's College Blog

As part of my exploration of personality, I completed an online Johari Window. This free and quick online personality evaluation was a process which helped me learn how similar my self-perceptions are to how others see me. The evaluation allowed me to really see what my friends and family members believed to be true about my personality.

The Johari Window process was very simple and easy to understand. I logged on to the website and chose six words, which best described me as a person. I then was given two links, one I was able to send to other people and the other to view how people responded. I sent the link to multiple family members and friends. I wanted to get a wide variety, so I sent it to my immediate family, cousins who I see occasionally, friends whom I met through other people, high school friends, college friends, and other people as well. They followed the link and chose the six personality traits they would choose for me. After all the answers were recorded, I viewed to see who knew me the closest as to how I viewed myself. It was interesting to see how people viewed me.

There were similarities to how I viewed myself and how others saw me in their eyes. All six of the personality traits I chose for myself were seen and chosen by my friends and family. At least one person chose each of the six traits. The two highest personality traits, which I chose as well as others, was intelligent and trustworthy. This meant a lot to me because I strive for academic excellence, and I want people to trust me in any situation.

I believed the Johari Window was a valid measure of my personality. The people, who were close to me and even the ones who were not, were able to identify the traits which I associated with myself. Even though I believed this was a valid measurement, I saw flaws within the evaluation as well. There were very similar word choices within the test, which made some peoples’ choices difficult to make. Also, the maximum recommended traits one could choose was six. This is a very low and inaccurate way to describe someone. I believed people had multiple characteristics with many different personality traits. Lastly with this said, I was able to see how I acted and was perceived towards each of my family member and friends.

Through this process, I learned how my family and friends viewed me and my characteristics. Some results surprised me, while others made me smile. I learned my mom and poppop knew me the best, which did not surprise me very much. I was very close to both of these family members. I also saw that my closer family and friends knew me better, in the same way as I viewed myself, compared to college friends. I learned people believed I was bold and mature. Also, I was very glad 50% of people thought I was trustworthy, and 62% thought I was intelligent. Lastly, I learned many people thought I was energetic and organized.

Overall, I was very pleased with the results from my personal Johari Window.

Link:

http://kevan.org/jh/sierraoz