1. Unit 10: Personality

2. DO NOW How would you describe your personality?

3. What is Personality?  an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

4. Myers Briggs Personality Test Designed help people better understand themselves Not a way of labeling or stereotyping people Created by a mother/daughter team of psychologists Used during World War II to help find ideal jobs for women while many of the men that made up the American workforce were serving overseas.

5. What’s your Personality Type? Personality types can be associated with different life and relationship outcomes and different career choices. The Myers Briggs personality types test is commonly used to identify the personality types of individuals. The test may be useful as part of Step 1 of your career planning process. Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Cook Briggs (mother-daughter team) developed four dimensions of personality based on the work of Carl Jung, a Swiss psychotherapist and psychiatrist. The four dimensions were made up of dichotomies (meaning that each of the four contained opposite pairs of psychological differences), resulting in 16 different types of personalities

6. Four Dimensions The four dimensions are: Attitudes: Extraversion (E) versus Intraversion (I) – Extraverted individuals – action oriented, prefer to gain wide knowledge, prefer to be among people and prefer frequent interaction. – Intraverted individuals – thought oriented, prefer to gain insights and depth of knowledge, prefer being alone and few interaction, although when interacting, they prefer to build strong friendships. Perceiving function: Sensing (S) versus Intuition (N) – Information gathering process functions. – Sensing individuals – prefer information that is backed by evidence (i.e. that they can understand or accept with the use of their five senses). – Intuition individuals – ability to trust or process information that is more abstract in nature. Judging function: Thinking (T) versus Feeling (F) – Decision making functions. – Thinking individuals – decisions are usually based on facts and rules, and what is logical or consistent. – Feeling individuals – decisions are based on empathy, fairness or through consensus. Lifestyle: Judging (J) versus Perception (P) – Judging individuals – this type of individual has a dominant Judging function (T/F) personality. – Feeling individuals – this type of individual has a dominant Perception function (S/N) personality.

7. Go to…. http://www.truity.com/view/types Learn more about your type Answer 4 out of 5 of the questions that follow