After taking the personality tests for general psychology in Lab 2, I am both intrigued and surprised by my results. Prior to this class, I have taken other personality profile tests due to my fascination with the way the human mind works. I have found that understanding my own personality, as well as the personalities of others helps immensely when trying to interact and relate to the people closest to us. Before I began this summary, I needed to know more about the determination of me being an ESFJ. Initially, I did not agree with the findings of this particular test. I have the capability of being extroverted, but tend to be more introverted than I was aware of when I was younger. This was a very interesting activity. I learned some …show more content…
Being well organized has also helped me stay on top of my family’s finances, which correlates to maintaining good credit. With the phallic test score, I agree that the sexual part of my life is well balanced. The latency score intrigued me. This section alleges that I have achieved balance within the realm of abstract knowledge, being practical and dealing with my responsibilities, and creative capacities and interests. I like to strive for balance in all things, which agrees with that score quite nicely. Regarding the genital score, reading the results made me feel like it was claiming that I am stuck up and set in my ways. I do not agree with that. I am not a close-minded person. I have my own core values and beliefs and feel that although I am content with them, I do not project them on anyone else or claim that my way is the best for everyone. Within this section, it discussed my aversion to change. I feel it is easy to misinterpret my opinions about change. I am able to adapt and ride the waves of change just fine, but my subconscious (id) likes to oppose it from time to time. I love balance, stability, and familiarity. I have not had a ton of those characteristics in my life, which is probably why I cling to them. I understand that change does not always have to carry negative connotations. Many positive changes are necessary to our growth. The Maslow test was next. Maslow’s test is based on our inherent hierarchy of human
The name of the career/ business assessment that I took from the Module is the Carolyn Kalil's Free Personality Quiz. The website that provided the quiz was http://www.innerheroes.com/quiz.asp. This website provided the quiz free of charge. The purpose of the Carolyn assessment is to evaluate an individual’s primary personality. After doing so, the information can be used to better understand an employee in the workplace. The test identifies thinkers, helpers, planners, and doers. Each one of these personalities can help build and support a business in a different aspect as long as the skill sets are implemented correctly.
Who are you? Many fortune cookies, horoscopes, and other whimsical devices attempt to tell us our personalities, or our combination of traits and behaviors that make up who we are. However, psychologists today deviate from those unsubstantiated methods and have concocted various personality tests that give us a better understanding of who we are. One such test is called the Myers-Briggs personality test. Based on theories by Carl Jung, but primarily created by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs, the test gives people a standardized survey of questions to answer. Standardized, meaning the test is given and scored in the exact same way every time to give unbiased and accurate results. It scores people in four pairs of characteristics, so there is a total of 16 possible personality types. Each pair of characteristics are opposites and a person can fall anywhere between the extreme end of one opposite to the extreme end of the other. The pairs are extroverted and introverted, sensing and intuition, thinking and feeling, finally judging and perceiving. A person can have strong, moderate or weak tendencies towards a preference. (Rathus, 2010, p. 420) There is some criticism of the Myers-Briggs test however, not everyone fits into the categories. People may answer according to socially acceptable norms instead of their honest answers. Not all of the theories were proven, Carl Jung made many observations and deductions but they weren’t formally
John Adams once said, “Thanks be to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right”. John Adams, like myself was introverted, intellectual, thinking, and judging, or an INTJ on the Myers Briggs personality test. Like all INTJs, Adams was stubborn and flouted the ideas of others that he did not agree with. By using my results from the Meyers Briggs personality test, I can examine how I react to certain things and use this to improve my Spirituality, my relationship with God, and ultimately my relationship with others through Christ.
After looking at the results, the writer understood some of his own tendencies and consoled himself that he did not have to good at everything. He opined that the knowledge of these personality types can help in developing a deeper understanding of people around him.
assessment showed me that I am outgoing and also very serious. I like to be in charge and enjoy
My Big Five Personality Test results provide implications for how I might practice social work and relate with others. I scored high on the dimensions of Openness and Conscientiousness, 88% and 83% respectively, suggesting that I am open-minded, organized, and think before I speak (Cournoyer, 2011). This will help me to approach client situations strategically. My percentile score for Extraversion was 79, which suggests that I am a good communicator, a skill that will be very helpful as a social worker. I scored in the 57th percentile for Agreeableness, which pertains to the way a person relates to and interacts with others (Cournoyer, 2011). Since my score was only in the 57th percentile, I may need to be mindful to ensure that I present myself
The thing that excites me the most about being a new student here at USF is the diversity within the student body. In my high school the predominant race was white, and although there is nothing wrong with this, I like the idea of being able to meet individuals with different cultural backgrounds. Here at the University of South Florida it is evident that there is a vast amount of diversity within the campus which can simply be seen by looking around the campus. I am definitely most nervous about making new friends on campus because I am a huge introvert, which can be backed up with the personality test report that I took about a month ago. When I took the personality test on myplan.com, the results showed that I was 87% introverted and only
Personality assessments can serve as a powerful and impactful tool that benefits the participants or others with whom your paths may cross. Inevitably, taking assessments like this requires self-awareness in order to maximize the value of the results. In this case, the McGraw-Hill assessment covered a wide array of topics which provided an extensive assessment of my values, personality style, motivational influences and contributing factors that drive my behaviors (McGraw-Hill Education, 2017). This evaluation offered me personal insights on how I behave in various situations, the impact my behavior may have on others, additional context around my personality traits and style, and organizational considerations that may influence my actions,
My Myers-Briggs Personality Test type is ESTJ (Extroverted iNtuative Thinking Judging). I am more of an extrovert rather than introvert. I believe more in logical sense rather than going for the intuition. I focus more on thinking rather than giving importance to feeling on something. Furthermore, I analyze facts and rely on judgment rather than perceiving something directly. These are some of the many ways I believe; ENTJ’s can be an efficient and effective leader and manager. I can identify more with the external environment. I am a very responsible person that has the ability to handle most tasks and problem solving critically and efficiently.
My results for the MBTI personality test was ISTP. Which represents me as introversion, sensing, thinking, and perceiving. I have personally never taken this test but I believe I got put into the right category. I was slightly introverted which wasn’t too much of a surprise for me because I am pretty shy sometimes. I love hanging out with people and never pass up an opportunity for a good time, so I would say I am more towards the middle between extroversion and introversion. For example, I wouldn’t go up and talk to someone out of the blue, but if anyone ever asked me to go meet people or do something I would usually say yes. The result for the way I make decisions seem very accurate to me. I usually always think logically and would think
I feel my reported Myers Briggs type matched my personality fairly well, however, I definitely know that I am Percieving and not Judging for the final aspect of my personality. The “Profile of…” didn’t quite match my personality as closely as I thought it would, as there were a few phrases I could identify with, but overall I didn’t quite think it was me. The being organized and planning everything out aspect of the ISFJ Profile did not match my personality; I tend to have random energy spikes in doing my work and feel exillerated by the rush of finishing something at the very last moment. My self-estimated type in class did not match my reported type. During class, I jotted down that I was ISFP which was not the same as the ISFJ I got later
The Jung Typology Personality Test results (Appendix A) show that I am an ESFJ with 1% Extravert, 1% sensing, 22% feeling and 44% judging. My test
My Big Five personality test results show that I am a conscientious individual, in which I scored 4.4 and the percentile indicates that I am higher than 90 of the norm sample. I agree with my result because I am a person who puts big effort in what I do and try to achieve high levels of efficiency. Also, I am a person who likes order and get things done as perfect as I can.
In the first week of class, we were asked to complete the Myers Briggs Personality test, and then to read up on our results. Once I had completed the typology “test”, I received my results in the form of four letters: INTJ, and afterwards, I decided to view what the four letters represented. Likewise, once I had begun to read the explanation provided by the website, I found that I was agreeing with several of the sentiments, as I felt it not only described my personality to near perfection, but also for the reason of how it was allowing me to come to better understand and accept myself. In other words, I felt that the results were self-fulfilling since they reflected upon who I am, and also, who I am not. For instance, I have found that
The Big Five personality test was created in the 1970 's by two independent research teams. One team with Paul Costa and Robert McCrae, and the other with Warren and Lewis Goldberg. The two teams had different methods that they tested but in the end they both ended up with the same results. The results were that no matter what culture, race, or language people have their personality fits into five dimensions of personality. The five dimensions were created after reviewing lots of surveys and data analysis called factor analysis. Now, just forty years later the Big Five is one of the most commonly accepted personality models.