Personality

Mental life or psyche is understood as a bodily organ (the brain) plus the acts of consciousness. In The Dissection of the Psychical Personality, Freud discusses the psychic nature of the human mind. He begins by that One thing we know about ourselves is the never-ending conflict between our instinctual desires and our endeavor to resist them. In other words, personality, what makes the “I” is a product of how mental forces interact. Later he terms the region where instincts lie the id and the…

I learned that I needed to take two personality tests for the course. As I continued reading throughout our personality book, I became captivated on so many levels about personality psychology. I was scared at first to take these tests, then I thought to that these results would be beneficial in knowing and confirming my thoughts of myself. The two personality tests I took were the Five Factory Personality test and the Eysenck test. The five factor personality test gave me on Factor 1…

by Michael C. Hall, who plays a blood splatter analyst and is a gripping character because he’s also a serial killer. He spends his days working for the homicide division, but is a serial killer who kills other killers by night. Dexter has many personality layers. He thinks cleverly, he solves problems easily, and he balances both sides of being a married father and a psychopath. He, at first, seems like a normal person, who lives a normal, sophisticated, friendly life, but becomes cold hearted…

Step 1-Meyers-Briggs Personality ENTJ Extraversion From the results of the Meyers-Briggs Personality test it stated that I was “moderately more preferable to being an extrovert than being an introvert by a margin of 33%” (Jung Typology Test; http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp, 1998). The people who demonstrate personalities of being an extravert are more inclined to be dealing with the world on the outside of their persona than dealing with the world inside their being, or an…

Myer-Briggs Personality Test for an employer. Unable to recall my personality type, I have again taken the test and this time been identified as the ENFJ or The Giver. This means I am classified as an Extravert, Intuitive, Feelings, Judging personality type. My type is considered to be one who desires to help others as a teacher of humanity or as “The Giver”. My temperament is the Intuitive-Feeler whose primary objective is identity seeking, the Teacher. This is a true match of my…

What is personality? Well, according to the book its states that “Personality is a stable set of characteristics and tendencies that determine those commonalities and differences in the psychological behavior (thoughts, feelings, and actions) of people that have continuity in time and that may or may not be easily understood in terms of the social and biological pressures of the immediate situation alone” (1972, p. 9). There are also four main approaches to personality and they are called:…

Introduction Every individual has their own unique personality. According to Vijendran (2012), our own unique personality, consequently provides us with a unique view on the world. The British Psychological Society (2011) provides that the ups and downs of life, in essence, life experiences, impact greatly on our personalities. In this regard, life experiences exist in the background of our lives even in adulthood. Another key factor that impacts on personality is the environment or setting…

Personality has always been a confusing phenomenon due to its empirical lacking nature. Psychologist understand how to manipulate personality but never what truly defines it. The reason could simply be because individuals are never one person. Humans are known for being adaptable ; meaning change is a natural part of life. It would in fact be a downfall to stay or act exactly the same constantly. One common example showcasing this is that a student would get in a lot of trouble if they spoke the…

are obvious reasons why our personality and behavior are connected. Our personalities are who we are and our behavior is how we act. How we act describes who we are as a person. Julian Rotter is an American psychologist that developed a social theory on personality and he once made a statement about the connection between a person’s personality and their behavior (Net Industries. 2015). Rotter stated, “Our behavior provides us hints on who we truly are, and our personality traits are given…

Myers-Briggs Personality Test is designed to help people understand more about themselves and their personality type. Myers used Jung’s theory of psychological types as an approach to classify personality types into 4-letter code which are introversion (I) or Extraversion (E), Intuition (N) or Sensing (S), Thinking (T) or Feeling (F), and Judging (J) or Perceiving (P) (“16Personalities”). There are 16 different personalities that can be described based on the combination of these 4-letter code…