Warm Up 12/5 No Warm Up. Please go directly to Google Classroom and open the quiz. Here are the directions: You have 25 minutes only (I’ll start timing once I stop reading this). You may use your notes and/or the script. You MAY NOT use internet sources beyond your journal/notes, and you may not talk to anyone else.

Learning Targets I can utilize prior knowledge of Hamlet in order to rock this quiz on Acts III and IV. I can take notes on the Myers-Briggs Test. I can identify my own MBTI personality type by taking an online quiz that is modeled after the MBTI.

Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) This personality assessment assumes that there are sixteen personality types. These are based on the well-known research of Carl Jung, Katharine C. Briggs, and Isabel Briggs Myers.

Carl Jung Carl Jung, a Swiss psychoanalyst from the turn of the 20th century, first developed the theory that individuals each had a psychological type. This type is based on his theory that there were two basic kinds of "functions" which humans used in their lives: how we take in information, and how we make decisions. We can perceive information via 1) our senses, or 2) our intuition. We can make decisions based on 1) objective logic, or 2) subjective feelings.

Jung (2) Jung believed that we all use these four functions in our lives, but that each individual uses them differently. He believed that we could identify an order of preference for these functions within individuals. The function which someone uses most frequently is their "dominant" function. He ALSO asserted that individuals either "extraverted" or "introverted" their dominant function. From this, he developed “personality types,” which were the basis for the MBTI.

Katharine Briggs & Isabel Briggs-Myers American researcher Katharine Briggs quietly worked to develop Jung’s theories further. But it was Katharine's daughter Isabel made the work on Personality Types visible. Isabel, using her mother's and Jung's work, asserted the importance of a secondary function working with the dominant function in defining Personality Type. While incorporating the secondary function into the picture, it became apparent that there was another distinctive preference which hadn't been defined by Jung: Judging and Perceiving. She highlights four areas:

Introversion Vs. Extroversion Our Flow of Energy defines how we receive the essential part of our stimulation. Do we receive it from within ourselves, or, do we feel energized when alone (Introverted) or from external sources, or, do we feel energized when with others (Extraverted)?

Sensing Vs. iNtuition The topic of how we Take in Information deals with our preferred method of taking in and absorbing information. Do we trust our five senses (Sensing) to take in information, or do we rely on our instincts (iNtuitive)?

Thinking Vs. Feeling The third type of preference, how we prefer to Make Decisions, refers to whether we are prone to decide things based on logic and objective consideration (Thinking), or based on our personal, subjective value systems (Feeling).

Judging Vs. Perceiving Myers added the fourth preference, which is concerned with how we deal with the external world on a Day-to-day Basis. Are we organized and purposeful, and more comfortable with scheduled, structured environments (Judging), or are we flexible and diverse, and more comfortable with open, casual environments (Perceiving)?

Personality Types Today The theory of Personality Types, as it stand today, contends that: An individual is either primarily Extraverted or Introverted An individual is either primarily Sensing or iNtuitive An individual is either primarily Thinking or Feeling An individual is either primarily Judging or Perceiving

Sixteen Types The possible combinations of the basic preferences form 16 different Personality Types. This does not mean that all (or even most) individuals will fall strictly into one category or another. If we learn by applying this tool that we are primarily Extraverted, that does not mean that we don't also perform Introverted activities. We function in each of these realms on a daily basis, but we gravitate towards our primary functions, where our natural strengths lie, and use these primary functions more often than the less-preferred functions. As we grow and learn, most of us develop the ability to function well in realms which are not native to our basic personalities. In the trials and tribulations of life, we develop some areas of ourselves more thoroughly than other areas. With this in mind, it becomes clear that we cannot box individuals into prescribed formulas for behavior. However, we can identify our natural preferences, and learn about our natural strengths and weaknesses within that context.