Monday, November 3, 2008

Learning about yourself: online personality test

There are many different kinds of people. Surely, people are different. What do you know about human personalities? Here are some discussion questions to talk about or think about before we try this activity. After you finish, you will write a little about what you found out. You may look at these questions again and see if your answers to the questions have changed.

Questions to think about and talk about before and after:
What is "personality type"?
What personality types are there?
What personality type is best? Is one personality type better than another?
What do you know about your own "personality type"?
Are your friends the same personality type as you?
Is it easier to get along if you are the same type, or if you arecomplementary types?
Are the members of your family the same personality type as you?
Do you think it is possible to change your personality type?

First, go to this site to try the personality test which is there.

The Humanmetrics Jung Test is a Jungian (actualy Myers-Brigg's) psychology test consisting of 72 Yes/No questions. Answer the questions as well as you can and click "Score it! You will then see a page which describes your Jungian psychological type with four letters. What were the four letters that you got? Read the description by D.Keirsey and the description of your type by J. Butt.

Do these description sound like you? What parts do you think are right? What was wrong? What kinds of jobs are suggested by the writers for your personality type? Do these jobs match what kind of job you think you would like? Do they match the results of the career interest survey that you tried?

You could also go to this page and click on the four-letter code which you got. Then you can read a little about your personality type according to this "test".

Do you think it matches you, or was the test wrong? What famous people is your personality type (according to the test result) similar to? Are your answers to the questions the same before and after? Write a short blog entry about Personality type and what you learned about personality and about yourself from this activity and reading.

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