What is the Johari Window

A window that shows self concept and qualities you present to others

1) Open

2) Blind

3) Hidden

4) Unknown (catalyst)

Define "open" (blk 1 in the Johari Window)

Define "blind" (blk 2 in the Johari Window)

Define "Hidden" (blk 3 in the Johari Window)

Define "unknown" (blk 4 in the Johari Window)

1) Friends - The open block is large and hidden is small.

2) Strangers - The open block is small while the hidden block is large

1) Own self-image

2) Others image of you

3) Cultural teachings

4) Social comparison (comparing ourselves with the people we are communicating with)

Self Disclosure

1) Gender

2) Age (generally disclose to our age or older)

3) Topic

4) Group Size (Generally disclose to less ppl)

5) Culture

6) Relationship

7) Liking

8) Dyadic Effect

9) In-Flight Intimacy

1) Increases self-knowledge

2) Increases relational depth

3) Improves communication efficency

4) Improves coping ability

1) Rejection

2) Material loss (could affect practical perspective)

3) Intrapersonal difficulty (have to live with what you disclosed)

Recieve

Understand

Remember

Evaluate

Respond

1) Surface/Depth

2) Active/Inactive

3) Non-judgemental/Critical

4) Empathetic/Objective

Surface - only gets obvious message

Depth - gets obvious and underlying message

Active - Use all verbal and non-verbal prose

Inactive - Use few to no verbal/non-verbal prose

Non-judgemental - Do not reveal anything but support

Critical - Uses nonverbal/verbal cues to critique

Define empathetic/objective

Empathetic - Can place themselves in your shoes

Objective - Almost inhuman in what they don't reveal

The 3 sources/shapers of self concept

1) Ascribed roles (poker hand)

2) Signifigant others/Reference groups (looking glass selves)

3) Mass Media (bombardment)

1) Sex - women can be lwr than cattle

2) Race - majority/minority (area of world & time in history

3) Geography - Baghdad/San Diego (have/havenot)

4) Socio-economic Status - urban/rural or lwr/upper class

5) Physical characteristics - attractive or lizard

1) Family - positive or negative reflective surfaces

2) Peers/Family - verbal & non-verbal cues

3) Teachers

4) Clubs/Organizations - group mentality (frat/soroity houses)

5) Work - does your job enhance your self concept

1) Film

2) TV

3) Radio

4) Music

5) Internet

1) Transactional (two people, face to face)

2) Cannot NOT Communicate

3) Validates or invalidates our self-concept

4) Can allow us maximum personal growth

5) Can allow you to control your world (finesse)

Pre-relationship, stronger, friend

1) attractivness-attractive physical characteristics

2) proximity-fall in love w/ ppl in same areas

3) reinforcement-someone that reinforces positive images have ourselves (used by sales ppl)

4) similarity-Matching Hypothesis to the Nth degree (age,food,dreams) sense of fimiliarity

 5) complementary

1) Love - who loves whom more

2) Friendship - good friend is nonjudgmental

3) Loyalty

4) Sex - active and more creative

5) Work

6) Money - breadmaker or shopping sprees

7) Respect, etc.

1) Contact - When you first meet someone

2) Involvment - (name, rank, serial #; dating)

3) Intimacy - (infatuation) highest point in relation

4) Deterioration - (interpersonal rusting) intitial signs of negativity

5) Dissolution - (stop dating, seperate, divorce)

1) Original reasons deminish (financial, kids, STDs)

2) Undifined/unrealistic expectaions - trying being friends after lovers

3) Third party - someone is left out

4) Sex - unrealistic expectaions - we want quality over quantity

5) Work - to much time spent away

6) Finances

1) Withdrawal (verbal&nonverbal) - lack of quality & quantity, tactile, affect displays...

2) Self disclosure - lessen when you disclose more to others than signifigant other

3) Deception - White lie - generally appreciate candor Lie of ommision - "leave" things out

4) Evaluate responses - dont pick or be hypercritical

5) Exchange of favors - spontanious, practical

6) Requesting behavior - dont make gopher of relationship

1) conflict is bad

2) Damages relationships

3) reveals negative selves

1) Win-lose/ Win Win

2) Avoidence/ Active fighting

3) Force/ Talk

4) Blame/ Empathy

5) Gunnysacking/ Present focus

6) Manipulation/ Spontaneity

7) Personal rejection/ Acceptance