Personality & Temperament Individual Variations

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Course work of M.Phil Education 2016-2017

ED 802 Psychological Perspective & Issues in Education

Assigned by

Prof. Dr. Iftikhar Hussain JaffriBy Ghulam Qadir Khaskheli M/ED/2k16/11

Personality & Temperament

Learning Goals

Characterize the nature of personality and temperament.

Demonstrate the MBTI Personality types

Individual Variations Personality & Temperament

Personality Temperament

Personality vs. Temperament

Personality • The distinctive thoughts,

emotions, and behaviors that characterize the way an indi-vidual adapts to the world.

Temperament •A person’s behavioral style and characteristic way of responding.

Temperament

Child’s Temperament

Children’s TemperamentEasy

• Positive mood• Establishes

regular routines

in infancy• Adapts easily

to new

experiences

Difficult

• Reacts negatively, cries frequently

• Irregular daily

routines• Slow to accept

change

Slow to Warm-Up

• Low activity level• Somewhat

negative• Low intensity of

mood

Crack the CaseThe Case of this presentation

1. What are the issues in this case?2. To what extent should teacheradapt their instruction to the strengths, learning styles, and personalities of their students? Why?3. What will you do in your classroom to accommodate individual differences such as students’ strengths, learning styles, and personalities?

The “Big Five” Personality Factors

Person-Situation Interaction Theory

The best way to characterize anindividual’s personality is not only in terms of personal traits or characteristics, but also interms of the situation involved.

Personality & Temperament Type

Myers and Briggs - The Myers-BriggsBriggs Type Indicator (MBTI) 1962 A. Isabella Myers begins to develop Jung's ideas, adding fourth category of personality type, Judging/Perceiving

B. Myers' daughter, Kathryn Briggs, helps her mother develop aquestionnaire to help people identify a four characteristic personality type

C. Extensive research and

development occurred duringWWII on service

men and women and furtherrefinement of the indicator occurred

David Kersey - Please Understand Me (1978)

A. Develops notions of "temperaments" based in • how people gather information (Sensation/iNtuition) and • how they evaluate it (Thinking/Feeling)

B. Develops short form indicator which identifies two characteristic Temperaments:

- The Keirsey Temperament Sorter

MBTI Who You are?

https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

MBTI Type Indicator

MBTI (16) Personality indicators)

MBTI Personality Orientation

MBTI Explained

MBTI Explained

How Your MBTI Personality Type Can Affect Your Career Choices

Personality and Temperament

Thanks To Read

Sources:

Presentation Ends Here

Santrock, J. W. (2011). Educational Psychology (Vol. 4). New York: McGraw- Hill.

Lawrence Richard, "The Lawyer Personality," Altman Weil, Inc. Article-sArchive, [online database cited January 12, 2003] available fromhttp://www.altmanweil.com/about/articles/archive/article.cfm?ArticleID=56

Vernellia Randall, "Learning Styles and Law Students,"University of Dayton School of Law [online database cited January 12, 2003] available from http://academic.udayton.edu/aep/online/study/mbti01.htm

Otto Kroeger, Janet Theusen, Type Talk, The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love and Work, (NY: Dell Publishing, 1988)

Kiersey.com