Personality typologies

Honoring the Self: Self-Esteem and Personal Tranformation by Nathaniel Branden is exactly what a person would assume it to be: learning how to honor one’s self. It goes into great detail about self esteem; Branden describes self esteem to be the most important concept for a fulfilling life. There are three parts to the book: The Dynamics of Self-Esteem, The Struggle for Individuation, and Egoism. The first part is broken up into seven sections, with Branden going into detail about how self…

organized in every aspect of my life. The majority of the findings were as expected, I had slight to moderate preferences for each dichotomy. Though I fall into a set MBTI type, I tend to switch between types depending on my environment. My designated personality preferences play specific roles in how I approach the HSA program. In a class or group setting my preference for introversion is ignored, I switch to an extraversion preference by participating a lot in class and interacting with the…

The only difference that sets him apart from his friends is the fact the he is graduating at the age of thirteen. How did he become so smart? Or why are there certain people who are smarter than others? This question’s pertaining to a person’s personality or characteristics cannot be explained. Becoming a serial killer, being an over-achiever, or being an alcoholic is being debated constantly between nature and nurture. Some argue that it is a person’s genetics that controls how a person turns…

In “The Psychological Criterion”, Derek Parfit tests the definition of identity by analyzing metaphysical hypotheticals, and presents the theory of psychological continuity. Faced with the issue of defining identity, Parfit seems to prefer the psychological continuity theory, seeing that it excludes the least amount of scenarios which fall outside the category of narrower theories. The psychological continuity theory stands as a revision to Locke’s experience-memory theory, which states A is…

reading the material the first week of this course. It has helped be a guide for me to think about how I am going to develop and build skills to add to my personal and professional tool box. Some of the things I have learned are as follows. My Jungian typology results showed that I am INFJ- Introvert (12%) iNtuitive (19%) Feeling (47%) and Judging (31%). INFJ Types are distinguished by our complexity of character and unusual range and depth of talents. I am a planner, a doer, and a dreamer. The…

examples given in the text, a few of the many ways that Baggini mentions to do so are those random horoscopes provided more for entertainment than information, and the professionally designed scientific personality profile tests. According to Funder, offers to enhance one’s knowledge of their personality are even used as promotional materials.…

I believe an ideal NJHS member should be someone with a good character, someone who works well in groups, someone who is passing all their classes, someone who is willing to work before and after school if needed, and someone who is responsible. All of these things are important, because there is not always going to be someone around to tell them what to do and when to do it. So if they have these qualities, they can easily learn to work things out by themselves. An NJHS member should be someone…

Analysis of assessments Referring to table 1 in appendix I, I was rated higher in terms of intrapersonal skills as compared to interpersonal skills. When my mean results were compared to the mean scores from the relevant articles cited by the survey, it was shown that I had a high score for attitude towards authority and rather low on self-monitoring score (<9). The other 3 aspects were rated moderate and close to the population mean. Results from all four surveys are rather similar with some…

Result show in several of studies provided in the journal the Neurobiology of Dissociative Disorders. Studies provided showed a relation to most current findings to Schizophrenia. Patients with Schizophrenia shared a common symptom to Dissociative Personality Disorder. Regular Schizophrenia patients have auditory hallucinations, withdrawal thoughts, thoughts out loud, delusional thinking, which are all common in Dissociative…

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), also known to most as Multiple Personality Disorder, is a psychological condition where a person possesses two or more identities. This disorder usually occurs in people who have suffered from a traumatic life event that they themselves might not be able to mentally deal with. DID is a very serious condition that unfortunately not many people are well informed about. This disorder is a little underrated because most people know very little about it and the…