Types of self review

Types of SelfPractice Reading Review

Types of SelfSince you control your thoughts and behaviors largely to the extent that you understand who you are, it's

crucial to develop heightened self-awareness. To better understand yourself, think of the self as divided into quadrants, each of which contains a different self.

Your Open Self. Your open self represents all the information, behaviors, attitudes, feelings, desires, motivations, and ideas that characterize you. The type of information included here might vary from your name and sex to your age, religious affiliation, and batting average. The size of your open self changes depending on the situation and the individuals you are interacting with. Some people probably make you feel comfortable and support you. To them, you would open yourself wide. To others you might prefer to have most of yourself closed or unknown. Visualize the entire four areas as of constant size but each section as variable, sometimes small, sometimes large. Note that a change in the open self area, or any area, will cause a change in the other areas. For example, your disclosure enlarges your open self and shrinks your hidden self.

Your Blind Self. Your blind self represents all the things about yourself that others know but of which you're ignorant. These include, for example, your habit of rubbing your nose when you get angry, your defense mechanisms, and your repressed experiences. Interpersonal communication depends on both parties sharing the same basic information about each other. Where blind areas exist, communication will be more difficult. Yet blind areas always exist. You can shrink your blind area, but you can never totally eliminate it.

Your Hidden Self. Your hidden self contains all you know of yourself but that you keep to yourself. This area includes all your successfully kept secrets. In any interaction, this area includes everything you have not revealed and perhaps seek actively to conceal. When you move information from this area to the open area, for example telling someone a secret, you're self-disclosing.

Your Unknown Self. Your unknown self represents all the truth that exist but that neither you nor others know. We infer the existence of this unknown self from dreams, psychological tests, or therapy. For example, through therapy you might become aware of your need for acceptance and how this influences the way you allow people to take advantage of you. With this insight, this information change weaknesses into strengths.

This four-part view of the self is particularly helpful in increasing your self-awareness. Self-awareness is crucial for several reasons. Perhaps the most obviously, self-awareness will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses so that you can capitalize on your strengths. More important, you can also direct your energies to correcting your weaknesses. (Devito, Joseph A. 2000. Messages: Building Interpersonal Communication Skills, 4th ed. pp. 42-43)

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Since you control your thoughts and behaviors largely to the extent that you understand who you are, it's crucial to develop heightened self-awareness. To better understand yourself, think of the self as divided into quadrants, each of which contains a different self.

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Since you control your thoughts and behaviors largely to the extent that you understand who you are, it's crucial to develop heightened self-awareness. To better understand yourself, think of the self as divided into quadrants, each of which contains a different self.

There are four types of self

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Your Open Self. Your open self represents all the information, behaviors, attitudes, feelings, desires, motivations, and ideas that characterize you. The type of information included here might vary from your name and sex to your age, religious affiliation, and batting average. The size of your open self changes depending on the situation and the individuals you are interacting with. Some people probably make you feel comfortable and support you. To them, you would open yourself wide. To others you might prefer to have most of yourself closed or unknown. Visualize the entire four areas as of constant size but each section as variable, sometimes small, sometimes large. Note that a change in the open self area, or any area, will cause a change in the other areas. For example, your disclosure enlarges your open self and shrinks your hidden self.

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Your Open Self. Your open self represents all the information, behaviors, attitudes, feelings, desires, motivations, and ideas that characterize you. The type of information included here might vary from your name and sex to your age, religious affiliation, and batting average. The size of your open self changes depending on the situation and the individuals you are interacting with. Some people probably make you feel comfortable and support you. To them, you would open yourself wide. To others you might prefer to have most of yourself closed or unknown. Visualize the entire four areas as of constant size but each section as variable, sometimes small, sometimes large. Note that a change in the open self area, or any area, will cause a change in the other areas. For example, your disclosure enlarges your open self and shrinks your hidden self.

One type of self, your open self, is what others know about you.

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Your Blind Self. Your blind self represents all the things about yourself that others know but of which you're ignorant. These include, for example, your habit of rubbing your nose when you get angry, your defense mechanisms, and your repressed experiences. Interpersonal communication depends on both parties sharing the same basic information about each other. Where blind areas exist, communication will be more difficult. Yet blind areas always exist. You can shrink your blind area, but you can never totally eliminate it.

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Your Blind Self. Your blind self represents all the things about yourself that others know but of which you're ignorant. These include, for example, your habit of rubbing your nose when you get angry, your defense mechanisms, and your repressed experiences. Interpersonal communication depends on both parties sharing the same basic information about each other. Where blind areas exist, communication will be more difficult. Yet blind areas always exist. You can shrink your blind area, but you can never totally eliminate it.

Your blind self is what others know about you but you don’t know.

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Your Hidden Self. Your hidden self contains all you know of yourself but that you keep to yourself. This area includes all your successfully kept secrets. In any interaction, this area includes everything you have not revealed and perhaps seek actively to conceal. When you move information from this area to the open area, for example telling someone a secret, you're self-disclosing.

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Your Hidden Self. Your hidden self contains all you know of yourself but that you keep to yourself. This area includes all your successfully kept secrets. In any interaction, this area includes everything you have not revealed and perhaps seek actively to conceal. When you move information from this area to the open area, for example telling someone a secret, you're self-disclosing.

Your hidden self is what only you know about yourself.

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Your Unknown Self. Your unknown self represents all the truth that exist but that neither you nor others know. We infer the existence of this unknown self from dreams, psychological tests, or therapy. For example, through therapy you might become aware of your need for acceptance and how this influences the way you allow people to take advantage of you. With this insight, this information change weaknesses into strengths.

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Your Unknown Self. Your unknown self represents all the truth that exist but that neither you nor others know. We infer the existence of this unknown self from dreams, psychological tests, or therapy. For example, through therapy you might become aware of your need for acceptance and how this influences the way you allow people to take advantage of you. With this insight, this information change weaknesses into strengths.

Your unknown self is what no one knows about you.

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This four-part view of the self is particularly helpful in increasing your self-awareness. Self-awareness is crucial for several reasons. Perhaps the most obviously, self-awareness will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses so that you can capitalize on your strengths. More important, you can also direct your energies to correcting your weaknesses. (Devito, Joseph A. 2000. Messages: Building Interpersonal Communication Skills, 4th ed. pp. 42-43)

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This four-part view of the self is particularly helpful in increasing your self-awareness. Self-awareness is crucial for several reasons. Perhaps the most obviously, self-awareness will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses so that you can capitalize on your strengths. More important, you can also direct your energies to correcting your weaknesses. (Devito, Joseph A. 2000. Messages: Building Interpersonal Communication Skills, 4th ed. pp. 42-43)

Being aware of the four types of self can increase your self-awareness and in turn help you to identify and capitalize on your strengths and correct your weaknesses.

Which sentence best states the main idea of this passage?

A. We all struggle with self-awareness and self acceptance.

B. Self-awareness is essential to success.

C. It is important to understand yourself.

D. To better understand yourself, think of the self as divided into quadrants, each of which contains a different self and each of which affects the other.

Paragraph Summaries1. There are four types of self

2. One type of self, your open self, is what others know about you.

3. Your blind self is what others know about you but you don’t know.

4. Your hidden self is what only you know about yourself.

5. Your unknown self is what no one knows about you.

6. Being aware of the four types of self can increase your self-awareness and in turn help you to identify and capitalize on your strengths and correct your weaknesses.

Which sentence best states the main idea of this passage?

A. We all struggle with self-awareness and self acceptance.

B. Self-awareness is essential to success.

C. It is important to understand yourself.

D. To better understand yourself, think of the self as divided into quadrants, each of which contains a different self and each of which affects the other.

Which sentence best states the main idea of this passage?

A. We all struggle with self-awareness and self acceptance.

B. Self-awareness is essential to success.

C. It is important to understand yourself.

D. To better understand yourself, think of the self as divided into quadrants, each of which contains a different self and each of which affects the other.

The overall pattern of organization for this passage is

A. classification.

B. cause and effect.

C. time order.

D. spatial order.

MI: To better understand yourself, think of the self as divided into quadrants, each of which contains a different self and each of which affects the other.

The overall pattern of organization for this passage is

A. classification.

B. cause and effect.

C. time order.

D. spatial order.

MI: To better understand yourself, think of the self as divided into quadrants, each of which contains a different self and each of which affects the other.

The primary purpose of this passage is to

A. identify the different types of self in order to identify strengths and weaknesses.

B. contrast the inner self to the outer self.

C. discuss the causes of self-identity.

D. give the history of the development of the self.

MI: To better understand yourself, think of the self as divided into quadrants, each of which contains a different self and each of which affects the other.

P: classification

The primary purpose of this passage is to

A. identify the different types of self in order to identify strengths and weaknesses.

B. contrast the inner self to the outer self.

C. discuss the causes of self-identity.

D. give the history of the development of the self.

MI: To better understand yourself, think of the self as divided into quadrants, each of which contains a different self and each of which affects the other.

P: classification

The tone of this passage is

A. indifferent

B. humorous

C. informal

D. objective

The tone of this passage is

A. indifferent

B. humorous

C. informal

D. objective

''To them, you would probably open yourself wide." (line 10)

The above statement is a statement of

A. opinion

B. fact

''To them, you would probably open yourself wide." (line 10)

The above statement is a statement of

A. opinion

B. fact

As used in the last paragraph 'capitalize' most nearly means

A. build

B. recognize

C. exploit

D. change

Perhaps the most obviously, self-awareness will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses so that you can capitalize on your strengths.

As used in the last paragraph 'capitalize' most nearly means

A. build

B. recognize

C. exploit

D. change

"When you move information from this area to the open area, for example telling someone a secret, you're self-disclosing." (line 25-26)

One conclusion that could be drawn from paragraph 4, based on the above statement is that

A. self-disclosing shrinks your hidden self and enlarges your open self.

B. self-disclosing is an unhealthy and inappropriate action.

C. self-disclosing is a healthy and appropriate action.

D. self-disclosing, as in, say, the revealing of secrets is unavoidable.

"When you move information from this area to the open area, for example telling someone a secret, you're self-disclosing." (line 25-26)

One conclusion that could be drawn from paragraph 4, based on the above statement is that

A. self-disclosing shrinks your hidden self and enlarges your open self.

B. self-disclosing is an unhealthy and inappropriate action.

C. self-disclosing is a healthy and appropriate action.

D. self-disclosing, as in, say, the revealing of secrets is unavoidable.

Remember in Paragraph Two:

“Note that a change in the open self area, or any area, will cause a change in the other areas. For example, your disclosure enlarges your open self and shrinks your hidden self.”

"When you move information from this area to the open area, for example telling someone a secret, you're self-disclosing." (line 25-26)

One conclusion that could be drawn from paragraph 4, based on the above statement is that

A. self-disclosing shrinks your hidden self and enlarges your open self.

B. self-disclosing is an unhealthy and inappropriate action.

C. self-disclosing is a healthy and appropriate action.

D. self-disclosing, as in, say, the revealing of secrets is unavoidable.

"You can shrink your blind area, but you can never totally eliminate it." (line 20-21)

The relationship of the parts within the following sentence is

A. Cause and effect

B. Statement and clarification

C. Contrast

D. Time order

"You can shrink your blind area, but you can never totally eliminate it." (line 20-21)

The relationship of the parts within the following sentence is

A. Cause and effect

B. Statement and clarification

C. Contrast

D. Time order

"Your blind self' is defined as

A. all the information, behaviors, attitudes, feelings, desires, and motivations that characterize you.

B. all that you know about yourself but keep hidden from yourself.

C. all the things about yourself that others know but of which you are ignorant.

D. all that is known about you which neither you nor others know.

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Your Blind Self. Your blind self represents all the things about yourself that others know but of which you're ignorant. These include, for example, your habit of rubbing your nose when you get angry, your defense mechanisms, and your repressed experiences. Interpersonal communication depends on both parties sharing the same basic information about each other. Where blind areas exist, communication will be more difficult. Yet blind areas always exist. You can shrink your blind area, but you can never totally eliminate it.

Your blind self is what others know about you but you don’t know.

"Your blind self' is defined as

A. all the information, behaviors, attitudes, feelings, desires, and motivations that characterize you.

B. all that you know about yourself but keep hidden from yourself.

C. all the things about yourself that others know but of which you are ignorant.

D. all that is known about you which neither you nor others know.