14.4 Roles Of Unconscious & Consious In Personality Flashcards
What is the African analogy like the iceberg?
Hippo swimming under water.
What is the major driving power behind people’s behaviour? This is also used to explain all behaviour.
The unconscious
What concept of unconscious factors motivating behaviour has been applied through work situations?
The Johari window
Who coined the concept of the Johari window?
Luft and Ingram
What does Object Relations Theory emphasise?
The importance of an individual’s relations with actual (external) fantasised (internal) objects. It allows an analysis of the person and his/her relations with internal or external objects.
Why is the word ‘object’ used in Object Relations theory?
Because relations are not only with people. They can be with a group, an idea, an organisation, a symbol or parts of the body.
Who is considered as one of the foremost object relations theorists?
Melanie Klein
What is the purpose of the Johari window concept?
It provides a model for feedback on self-knowledge, and personal, interpersonal and communicative behaviour.
Freud believed the human mind was divided into 3 levels of awareness. Also called the TOPOGRAPHICAL MODEL of the mind. Name the 3 levels.
1) the conscious
2) the preconcious (available memory)
3) the unconcious
What is the Jahari window used for in organisations?
To facilitate growth and learning.
Describe the process taken with the Jahari window in organisations.
It entails self-disclosure whereby individuals open up and talk about themselves
and
also receive feedback from others on their behaviour
How did Klein develop conclusions about infant development and unconscious processes?
Through processes of
Childhood development observation
and
Psychoanalytic play techniques
Klein demonstrated that adulthood has its roots in infancy. How did she demonstrate this?
By showing that the earliest activities of the ego are involved in various defence mechanisms (such as projection)
in an attempt to exclude particular anxieties from consciousness.
Klein focussed in her research of childhood development, on the development of the dyad and triad. What are these?
Dyat - infant and significant other relationship
Triad - infant, mother and father relationship
Klein claims that an infant, in the primary categorise everything. Explain.
The infant categorise the first relationship (between infant and significant other) into that which satisfies him/her (good)
and
what frustrates him/her (bad)
These are seen as PART OBJECTS (either good or bad) WHOLE OBJECTS (good and bad as integrated)
