What was your personality type?

Personality Packet

This activity has two parts. This first section requires you to take and compare two personality tests and answer some questions about them. First access the link named personality test 1 on the course website on this week’s lesson page and take that test. The link to this test is also found here:

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

Once you finish you need to read your results carefully and answer the following questions.

1. What was your personality type? Make sure to give the four letters here and the percentages for each.

Now read the full description of your type listed just below your score (and slightly to the left…it should say something like ENTP type description). Read all the way down through the functional analysis section of the description. Then google your type (for example, ENTP) and read the short descriptions offered at 16personalities.com and the personality page (which offers a portrait of your type). These should be the first two links that come up, or very close to that. If for some reason they are not functional, you can choose two other sites to read descriptions of your type.

2. How accurate were these website’s description of your personality? Include details and give a paragraph response on how valid you found the descriptions of your personality and why.

3. Now access the link named personality test 2 on the lessons page and take that test. The link to this test is also found here:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/personality-quiz/

Once you take that very short test then read the results that pop up below your score on the website. If you scroll down it explains what each of the categories in your personality score means. Once you have done that then compare this second personality test to the first one you took. In at least a full paragraph give your score, and then describe which one you think better captured you and was more accurate. Explain why.

4. Compare the major personality tests that your textbook discusses (p.415-417 at the very end of the Personality chapter) and explain why you think some tests are better than others. To get full credit for this question you must specifically mention the two different categories of tests that are mentioned in those pages of your textbook, briefly describe the major tests that fall into each category, provide some specific drawbacks or advantages of the categories in general, and then finally offer your brief opinion as to what is the best way to assess someone’s personality.

5. What have been the dominant influences on your personality? Why are you the way you are? What, if anything, would you like to change about your personality and how would you go about doing that?

Once you finish reflecting and writing on these questions it is time to complete the self-actualization interview portion of this activity. On the next page you will find information regarding this second part of the project. Simply follow those directions, complete the interview, and answer the questions on that sheet. You will turn in both these questions and the interview questions together as one word document or pdf file on the course Sakai site through the “assignments” tab on the left of the course home page to receive your grade for this personality packet activity.