Try to understand this reading text then follow the instructions !

Two Basic Quadrants of Different Self

The Open Self. The open self represents all the information, behaviors, attitudes,
feelings, desires, motivations, ideas, and so on that you know about yourself and that others also
know. The information included here might vary from your name, skin color, and sex to your
age, political and religious affiliations, and job title. Your open self will vary in size depending
on the individuals with whom you are dealing. Some people probably make you prefer to leave
most of yourself closed.
The size of the open self also varies from person to person, some people tend to reveal
their innermost desires and feelings. Others prefer to remain silent about both significant and
insignificant details. Most of us, however, open ourselves to some people about some things at
some times.
The smaller the first quadrant, says Luft (1984), the poorer the communication .
communication depends on the degree to which you open yourself to others and to yourself. If
dont allow others to know you, communication becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible.
You can communicate meaningfully only when you know the other person, the other person
knows you, and you each know yourself. To improve communication, you have to work first on
enlarging the open self.
A change in the open area or in any of the quadrants will bring about a change in the
other quadrants. Visualize the size of the entire window being constant, and the size of each pane
becomes smaller, one or more of the others must become larger. Similarly, as one pane becomes
larger, one or more of the others must become smaller. These several selves, then, are not
separate and distinct from each other. Rather, each depends on the others.
The Blind Self . The self represents information about yourself that others know but you
do not. This may vary from relatively insignificant habits using the expression you know,
rubbing your nose when you get angry, or having a peculiar body odor to something as
significant as defense mechanisms, fight strategies, or repressed experience.
Some people have a very large blind self and seem ablivious to their own faults and
sometimes (though not as often) their own virtues. Others seem overly concerned with having a
blind self. They seek therapy at every turn and join every consciousness-raising group. Some
think they know everything about themselves that they have reduced the blind self to zero.
Communication depends in great part on both parties having the same basic information
about the other. Where blind area exist, communication will be difficult. yet blind areas will
always exist for each of us. Although we may be able to shrink our blind areas, we can never
eliminate them.
A. Aswer the questions well based on the reading text above !

1. What does the open self represent you that you know about yourself ?
2. might the information included here vary from your name, skin color or not ?
3. How will your openself vary in size ?
4. Why does the open self also vary from person to person ?
5. What does Lutf (1984 ) say about the communication related to your open self ?
6. In contrast with the open self, what does the blind self represent you ?
7. What does the word This refer to ? ( in second line of the fifth paragraph )
8. When do some people seek therapy and how some of them think ?
9. What will communication be where blind areas exist ?
10. Including to what kind of human are you, The open Self or The Blind Self ?


B. Make the questions for following statements
1. The open self represents all the information, behaviors, attitudes ( what )
2. Some people have a very large blind self and seem ablivious ( How )
3. Communication depends on the degree to which you open yourself to others ( To Whom )
4. You can communicate meaningfully only when you know the other person ( When )
5. Most of us, open ourselves to some people about some things at some times (Who)

C. Circle the letters of the answers that best complete the sentences below !
1. The Open Self will always represent :
a. Various from person to person and from some people to the others
b. All the information, behaviors, attitudes, etc that you know about yourself
and that others also know
c. Various from relatively insignificant habits by using expression you know
d. All information about yourself that others know but you do not know

2. The Blind Self will always represent :
a. All the information, behaviors, attitudes, etc that you know about yourself
and that others also know
b. Various from relatively insignificant habits by using expression you know
c. All information about yourself that others know but you do not know
d. Various from person to person and from some people to the others

3. You can open yourself to the some people widely when they :
a. Probably make you feel happy and love only you alone
b. Probably make you feel safe and advice you to do something
c. Probably make you feel comfortable and support you
d. Probably make you feel understandable and suggest you

4. Althogh we may be able to shrink our blind areas, we can never eliminate them for :
a. They will always exist for each of us
b. They will be always very difficult for each of us
c. They seek therapy at every turn and join every consciousness raising group
d. Communication depends in great part of both parties having the same basic
in formation about the other

5. According to the reading text above, the following statements of the open self are
right exept :
a. The size of the open self also various from person to person
b. Your open self will vary in size depending on the individuals with whom you
are dealing
c. To improve communication, you have to work first on enlarging open self
d. Others seem overly concerned with having a blind self

D. Look at the terms in the left-hand column and find the correct synonyms of
definitions in the right-hand column. Copy the corresponding letters in the
blanks !

1. ................ Entire a. Thing that is wished for, long for, wish
2. ................ Quadrant b. Society or institution, or a member entering into
Association
3. ............... rubbing c. Most inward, most private or secret
4. ............... Affiliation d. Fourth part of a circle or its circumference
5. ............... Desire e. Whole, complete; in one place, un broken
6. ............... oblivious f. Single sheet of glass in ( a division of ) a window
7. ............... innermost g. Move ( one thing ) backward and frwards on the
surface of ( another ); make sth clean, dry etc.
8. ............... Shrink h. Reputation, approval, smell
9. ............... Virtue i. Unaware, having no memory
10. ............... Pane j. Goodness, excellence, advantage
11. ............... Odor k. Make or become less, move back, show
unwillingness to do something