personality testing workshop for local english teachers and fulbrighters
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Jung/Myers-Briggs/Keirsey We’ll look at a particular group of popular tests based on ideas about personality developed by Karl Jung. Jung Myers-BriggsKeirseyTRANSCRIPT
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Personality Testing
Workshop for Local English Teachers and Fulbrighters
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So many tests!
There are dozens of tests to classify and describe types of personalities.
What do you think makes personality tests so popular?
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Jung/Myers-Briggs/KeirseyWe’ll look at a particular group of popular tests
based on ideas about personality developed by Karl Jung.
Jung
Myers-Briggs Keirsey
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Karl Jung
A German philosopher (1875-1961) and a colleague of Sigmund Freud. However Jung developed very different theories of psychology.
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Jung’s Ideas
Rejected experimental methods of psychology. Must go out and observe people.
“collective unconscious”
Personality types E/I, S/N, T/F
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Myers-Briggs
A test developed by a person named based on Jungian typology.
Used Jung’s categories but added one more J/P, which indicates which of the other categories are dominant.
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Kiersey Personality Sorter Keirsey reordered the personality types in a d
ifferent way. SJ and NF = Cooperatives SP and NT= PragmaticsFour main categories: Rationals, Idealists, Guar
dians, Artisans. Each main category has four sub-types.
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Advantages of these types personality tests
Discuss positives elements of all types. Emphasizes understanding self and others.
Seems to “make sense” to many people.
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Potential drawbacks
Just an indicator, not a scientific instrument. Perhaps too flexible? If you don’t think the
results match, pick another letter.
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HOWEVER,
Overall this type of personality can test be useful because to give everyone a common language from which to discuss and share their ideas.
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So what DO the letters mean?
See the handout and let’s talk about them!
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Understanding yourself and others can help improve communication
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