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Today We Will… Explain and describe the Big 5 Test Describe each of the Big 5 personality characteristics Describe how each of the Big 5 personality characteristics relate to each other Identify and describe your Big 5 personality characteristics Connect your Big 5 personality characteristics to examples from your own life

What is the Big 5? A system of classifying personality traits Describes 5 basic personality traits that generally fit everyone Helps us to get an understanding of ourselves and others Tests use behavioural factors and mathematically correlates answers together to describe personality characteristics

Big 5 Categories …

Personality Exists on a Continuum

The Big Five Personality Traits Extraversion: Engages with the external world Being with other people Often experience positive emotions Action-oriented Group interaction and socializing

Extroversion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jyCfRHumHU

The Big 5 Personality Traits Introversion: Lower energy and activity levels than extroverts Quiet or low key Deliberate Less social interaction Independent Reserved (can be mistaken for unfriendly/ unsociable)

The Big 5 Personality Traits Agreeableness: Seeks co-operation and social harmony Considerate, friendly, generous and helpful Optimistic view of people Believe that people are usually honest and trustworthy Usually well-liked

The Big 5 Personality Traits Disagreeableness: Self-interest above others Unconcerned with the well-being of others Skeptical or suspicious of other people Less co-operative Objective decision makes- not easily influenced by others

The Big 5 Personality Traits Conscientiousness: High degree of self-control Typically avoid trouble Usually plan and persist at achieving goals Reliable Often successful Can be perfectionists

The Big 5 Personality Traits Unconscientiousness: Impulsive behaviour (acting without thinking) Can often get in trouble Can be unreliable Thinking about the present, not planning for or thinking about the future Sometimes show a lack of ambition (drive to achieve)

The Big 5 Personality Traits Neuroticism: May experience one or most of the following: anxiety, anger, or depression Emotionally reactive Responds emotionally to events more so than other Can view events “out of proportion” Lengthy emotional periods of frustrtion can affect decision making and thinking clearly

The Big 5 Personality Traits Balanced (emotionally): Less emotionally responsive and reactive Free from persistent negative feelings Able to achieve a greater clarity of though t and decision-making with

The Big 5 Personality Traits Openness to Experience: Tend to be creative and imaginative Curious, appreciative of arts and sensitive to beauty More aware of their own feelings Tend to be individualistic and non-confirmative Abstract thinking, symbolic recognition and performance arts

The Big 5 Personality Traits Closed to Experience: Prefer concrete and straight forward concepts New ideas or concepts may be viewed with suspicion Narrower or common interests Conservative and resistant to change

Where do you think you fall? Hypothesize where you will fall on the spectrum of each category

The Big 5 Personality Test Answer each question honestly Don’t worry about your results Use the test as a tool to understand yourself better

Take the Big Five Personality Test If you finish early, complete this: http://www.truity.com/test/big-five-personality-test Compare your results to the first one When you are done, think of and write examples from your own life that reflects your personality characteristics

Show Us Your Results! You will create a poster based on your results Show where you fell on the OCEAN spectrum Give an example of how you exemplify each Include images Can be done on the computer or by hand