Week 18

AP Psychology Students: Please take the personality test linked below. What did you learn? How could this be useful? How did Jung’s theories differ from Freud’s? Where do you think personality comes from? Or what is it? Whose theories are best?

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

Try some more personality tests or intelligence tests. Is one approach better than the other? Do you have a favorite?

http://www.nedprod.com/Niall_stuff/intelligence_test.html

http://www.psychtests.com/cgi-bin/tests/transfer.cgi 

http://www.intelligencetest.com/test/signupuser.php 

http://www.mindandmuscle.net/content/page-304.html 

http://www.4tests.com/exams/examdetail.asp?eid=6 

http://hlavolamy.szm.sk/download/iq-tests-logic-games.htm 

Comments

[Beam]

I learn that I am a master mind, which mean that I am a bit on the cold side on emotions. On the other hand I am a good leader but is not an eager one. I have excellent planing skills and analyzing skill. My social interaction skills are partially nonexistent. This is very useful because it help me know what my up and down abilities are. This is useful because I could find the right school and the right job so that I won't end up being miserable. Freud believe in unconscious motives, desires and conflicts. Jung on the other believe that there is 2 kinds of unconscious, Freud's unconscious and his unconscious. He also believe in archetypes, which are inherited idea that he found on different culture, time period and locations of the human kind. I think that personality comes from our experience, conflict and how we dealt with them. I like Bandura's personality best, it seems practical and valid. It shows how the 3 factors, which are practical interact and influence each other to produce our personality.

[Jenny]

I learned that I am an introverted sensing feeling judging type. I have the desire to serve others, family as a centered part of my life, accurate workers, and have a few, close friends. I am a protector. This is useful because I can predict what occupation will fit my personalities by taking the test and to realize what type of personality do I have. Jung’s theories differ from Freud’s theories because Jung believed that people can developed their potential and take care of their instinctual desires. We have the collective unconscious which included archetype. Archetype is an inherited idea that everyone share. I think personality comes from a combination of past experiences, social experiences, and our behaviors. Personality is what make everyone unique. It is the combination of characteristics of each person. I think Bandura’s theory is the best because the reciprocal determinism includes cognitive- personal factors, behaviors, and environment factor together to form personality development.

Each approach isn’t better than the other. Each of the tests give similar results to how my personality is like or how talent I am for each intelligence. My favorite is the nedprod website one because it divides the intelligence into sections and the results shows the percentage of how much of the talents do I have for each intelligence.

[Wendy]

The result of this test is that I have an “INFJ” personality type. From this I learned that I have an introverted intuition, which means that I find it easy to understand people’s real emotions and feelings behind the surface, or the observable behaviors. I have an extraverted feeling, which means that I share my personal thoughts only to close friends. I have an introverted thinking, which means I prefer to think alone and distant myself from others sometimes. I have an extraverted sensing which means my perception of reality could be strongly influenced by my inner vision. This could be useful when making decisions. Knowing my own personality can help me interact better with others and choose a suitable job in the future.

Jung’s theories differ from Freud in the ways that it more positive. Freud’s theories are based on the study of those with mental problems and their ways to face unconscious aggressive urges. Jung’s theories emphasize the collective unconscious, which is a kind of knowledge we are all born with but can never be directly conscious of, and how it shapes us.

I think personality comes from an interaction of the environment, the society, and our cognitive processes. Personality is the total of our traits, and the environment we grew up in, the people we meet, and our own perceptions of things shape these traits. I think the social-cognitive theory is the best because it emphasizes the idea mentioned above.

In my opinion the test on the nedprod website was the most useful because it identified our intelligent directly and it also separates it into parts so make it easier to understand. The IQ test was interesting to take but the information given wasn’t very useful. Our IQ was a given amount of number that determines our intelligence but it doesn’t actually help us understand ourselves or make future decisions at all.

[Pob]

My result for the personality test is ISFP. I had learned that I am like an anti-social person. I very like to live in my own personality world. Most of my decision are made by emotion and feeling. I moderately express feeling and perceiving personality. They said that I am an unorganized person and which it is true. I usually make my act here and now with a little bit of planning or without planning. According to Dr. David Keirsey, I will grow and become an artisan; I have no interest in developing public speaking abilities but rather communicate by the senses. This is very useful because it help to understand my selves and making decision for my future career.
The differences between Jung and Freud theory is that Freud concentrated more in the hidden instinctive behavior or the unconsciousness, which play the important role in human behavior. On the other hand, Jung analysis of all aspect that would influences and determines the human behavior.
I think that personality come from trait and the influences of the environment. The trait is pasted to generation by generation, which would sometime change due to the change of a characteristic of an individual. Also the environment would have shaped our personality. I think all the theories are believable but none of them could total prove that they are one hundred percent correct.
The different test that I did give variety of result. Some are the same and some are don’t. I think my favorite approach to acquire information about intelligence would be the IQ test lab. I once wanted to know my IQ and now I know. I am just a little bit above the average, which is good. I still think that I would score more If they give me more time.

[Vivienne Sung]

According to the personality test link, I have the personality type of Extraverted Intuitive Feeling Judging (EIFJ). As an ENFJ individual, I mainly focused my living externally where I would deal with things according to how you feel about them, or how they fit into your personal value system. According to BSM website, ENFJ individual tend to have "good verbal communication skills" and usually are very "perceptive about people's thoughts and motives". Yet, sometimes I might "tend to be critical of opinions and attitudes which don't match [my] own".

Both men drew on the concept of the unconscious as a way of explaining dreams, but Jung focused more on the concept of the subconscious. The primary differences between Freud and Jung are interesting to observe. Freud believe the dreams we had had some unconscious meaning, even though the people who dreamed them did not know what they meant. He believed the unconscious motives and the feelings we experience as a child will have an enormous impact on adult's personality and behavior. On the other hand, Jung believed that people try to develop their potential as well as handle their instinctual urges. He argued that archetypes from ancestors influenced our thoughts and feelings and our personalities as well.

I think personality comes from our emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical well-being. Out of all the personality theories, I believe in Alfred Adler's theory the most. He believed that the driving force in people's live is a desire to overcome their feelings of inferiority. He also believed that the way parents treat their children influences the styles of of life and personality. He said over-pampering parents lead to a child that is self-centered. A neglected parenting style leads to a hostile children. The reason I believe in this theory is because I've seem so many real life examples around me. However, we should still call upon all theories because personality is still something that we couldn't explain but describe it.

[Zen]

When I finish my personality test. My result was ENTJ. ENTJ represent people who focused externally more than internally. These people were born as leader, very career focused, fit into the corporate world quite naturally, forceful, decisive in individual, strong sentimental streak, love to interact with other people, and want their home to be beautiful. This is very useful since it shows me the path to my future. How I am going to use my ability against the real world and I know more about myself. 
Jung theories differ from Freud in two major point. Jung believe that people try to develop their potential as well as handle their instinctual urges. He took a more positive view of human nature. He distinguished between personal unconscious, and then collect unconscious, which storehouse of instinct, urges, and memories of the entire human species throughout history. I think that personality comes from heredity and the environment that influences us. In my opinion personality comes from parents and then change throughout time being with the real world for an example friend would influence us to be good or a bad person. I think heredity and behavioral theory are somewhat the most factors that affect our personality because personality is a behavior.

[J]

Now I’m sure that I have the personality type of “INFJ” or “counselors” that’s because I did get this result three times from Mr.Josh class, Ms.Jen and then here in psychology class. However, I learned that I am introvert kind of person who kept their feeling inside and more concerned about themselves. As well as, I believe in my own instinct and judge things with my feeling. I think this personality test make me understand more about myself which would be useful for me to behave in societies. Plus, I would now know what kind of jobs I best suited in, and how should I made a great uses from it. Freud and Jung both believes in the causes from unconsciousness,but Jung did believe that human nature were positively good and people try to develop both potential and instinctual urges. While Freud, believe our personality did get influenced by tragic childhood experiences. In my opinion, I believe in behaviorist and humanist theory. I believed that each individuals of us are shaped different by our own culture and environment for some specific traits, and in order for us to behave in specific traits we need to get influence by others and our peers to made us have self-confident and positive regard among our peers. Personality means the pattern of all specific traits that individual have according to their ages. For me, as I said earlier I believe in behaviorist and humanist, but if I have to decide between these two I would choose behaviorist. That’s because I believe that we people were shaped by environment around us, we would act in a certain ways according to our peers and culture that we have, and it would not become personality if it did not get reinforce by others around us.
After I done several personality tests, I think that every single one did approach best on their style. However, my favorite test for intelligence would be “IQ TEST LABS” while personality would be “Psych test” because psych test would give you a specific tests for each style you would like to know while IQ test labs would measure my IQ. In which is very fun and don’t have too much question for me to take.

[Dino]

I learned that I have the personality type "INTJ", which means I am slightly expressed introvert, moderately expressed intuitive personality, slightly expressed thinking personality, and slightly expressed judging personality. The test shows that I have the traits of focusing my energy inside. I like to spend my time only, in my mind, not in parties where its loud and tiring. I am also quite intuitive, and usually trust in my gut feeling. They are usually correct. This could be useful when applying to different roles in society, like a job. If I was asked what type of personality I have, I wouldn't need time to think about it. I would instantly know. I also learned something that I couldn't have known if I didn't take the test. I may have knew unconsciously, but the test made it clear. The main difference between Freud and Jung's theories is that Jung's theories disagreed about the negative power of the unconscious in Freud's theory. Jung felt Freud focused too much on sexuality.Jung theorized that the unconscious can also be a source of positive creativity.
To me personally, I think personality is influenced from both the environment and from cognitive processes. Every person is also born different, plus different environments and interpretations help to shape different traits. Personality is the combination of traits and characteristics that defines how a person will behave in different situations. I think every theory have certain parts that are very believable, but none can be said to be the most accurate. There may have been experiments that help explain personality, but none are totally proven, and there can always be more to state the older ones wrong.
The different tests I did all had different questions, and all yielded different results. Some may have been very similar, but some are also quite different. I would have to say my favorite approach to acquire information about intelligence would be the "IQ test lab", and personality would be the "nedprod" one. The "IQ test lab" seems more legit than the others, and the "nedprod" one had a very user-friendly interface. It was more fun and interesting than the others.