Personality Type

What code are you?

Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I)

• These are two different attitudes to the world around us.

• When you are in the extraverted attitude, you relate more easily to the world of people and things outside of you.

• When you are in the introverted attitude, you relate more easily to the ideas and concepts in your mind

Sensing (S) or Intuition (N)

• These are 2 different ways of gathering information.

• When you are perceiving with your sensing process, you are interested in your 5 senses show you (what exists in the present)

• When you are perceiving with your intuition, you are using your imagination to see new possibilities and insights hidden from the eye.

Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)

• These reflect 2 kinds of decision making.

• When you make judgments with your thinking, you base your decisions on impersonal analysis and logic.

• When you make judgments with your feeling, you base your decisions on your values.

Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)

• These are 2 ways of living in the world around us.

• When you are living by your judgment, you like to have things decided; your life is likely to be planned and orderly.

• When you are living by your perception, you don’t want to miss anything; your way of life is likely to be spontaneous and flexible.

Extraversion

• Likes variety and action

• Enjoys talking out loud about ideas

• Demonstrates energy and enthusiasm

• Is stimulated by, and responsive to, people and actions in the environment

• May be easily distracted

• Expresses thoughts and feelings openly

• Is energized by being with others

• Acts before thinking

• Is friendly and talkative

• May be Impatient with long, slow projects

• Values friends and relationships

Extraversion

• Gregarious - drawn to large number and variety of relationships.

• Enthusiastic - being energetically with the “action” and at the center of things.

• Initiator - social facilitator, assertively outgoing, build bridges among people.

• Expressive - easy to know, approachable, warm, readily show feelings.

• Auditory - learn through listening, active dialogue, and involvement with others.

Introversion

• Enjoys individual or one-on-one activities

• Is energized by ideas

• Thinks before acting

• Likes to concentrate on a few select tasks at a time

• Carefully considers an idea before discussing or making a decision about it

• Usually waits for others to make the first move

• May not communicate thoughts and feelings

• Needs privacy

• Can make him or herself inconspicuous

• Tends to sit back, observe, and reflect

• Dislikes interruptions

• Must understand an idea or project before attempting it

• Pauses before answering and may be uncomfortable with spontaneous questioning

• Can ignore distractions

Introversion

• Intimate - most comfortable in small groups and with one-on-one relationships.

• Quiet - present themselves modestly, drawn to the calm away from the center of action.

• Receptor - content to let others initiate social amenities-even to the point of being overlooked.

• Contained - well controlled, calm exterior, often difficult for others

to “read.”.

• Visual - learn through observation, reflection, reading, and more solitary means.

Sensing

• Likes precise directions

• Enjoys films and other audiovisual presentations

• Prefers using skills already learned

• Focuses on the present

• Works steadily with a realistic idea of how long the task will take

• Prefers things that are definite and measurable

• Wants material presented step-by-step

• Relies on experience rather than theory

• Is interested in whatever appeals to the senses

• Is likely to recall details well

• May be comfortable with routine exercises that develop skills

• Draws on proven methods to solve current problems

• Enjoys tradition and custom

• Can learn abstract concepts buy may become stressed by the task

• Wants the facts when discussing an issue and mistrusts vague ideas

Sensing

• Concrete - depend on verifiable, factual information and direct perceptions. literal, mistrust fuzzy information.

• Realistic - value being practical, cost-effective, and exercising common sense.

• Pragmatic - highly values the usefulness or applications of an idea -more interesting than idea itself.

• Experiential - heavily grounded by first hand, past experience. Reluctant to generalize beyond direct experience.

• Traditional - trust what is familiar, support established groups and methods, honor precedents.

Intuition

• Needs opportunities to be creative and original

• Likes tasks that require imagination

• Enjoys learning new skills more than mastering familiar ones

• Dislikes routine

• Works in bursts of energy with slow periods in between

• Dislikes taking time for precision

• Focuses on the future

• May skip over facts or get them wrong

• Spends so much time designing an original project that the finished product may not meet expectations

• Needs variety

• Has a seemingly sporadic approach rather than an ordered, step-by-step approach

• Is idealistic

Intuition

• Abstract - comfortable with and inferring meaning from ambiguous and non-literal information. Perceptive.

• Imaginative - enjoy being ingenious, clever and novel . . . for its own sake.

• Intellectual - learning, acquiring knowledge, mental challenges are valued as an end in itself.

• Theoretical - conceptual, automatically search for patterns in observed facts, comfortable with theories and inventing new ones. Resourceful.

• Original - values initiative and enterprising, inventive, and novel solutions. Often mistrusts conventional wisdom.

Thinking

• Values individual achievement over group cooperation

• Needs to know why things are done

• May enjoy talking with teachers more than peers

• Dislikes small talk

• Enjoys library research projects

• Enjoys debates

• Often finds ideas or things more interesting than people

• Needs opportunities to demonstrate competence

• Is concerned with truth and justice based on principles

• Can be devastated by failure

• Prefers information to be presented briefly and concisely

• Spontaneously analyzes the flaws in ideas, things, or people

• Is task oriented

• Needs to know the criteria for grades and evaluations

Thinking

• Critical - comfortable making distinctions, categorizing, making win/lose choices, being in adversarial situations.

• Tough Minded - results oriented, ends justify the means, stick on task. Firm

• Questioning - intellectually independent, resistant to influence, self confident.

• Logical - values and trusts detached, objective, and logical analysis.

• Reasonable - is clear-thinking, objective, reasoned, and logical in everyday decision- making.

Feeling

• Enjoys sharing information in small groups

• Is loyal

• Tries to help others feel secure and comfortable

• Needs praise

• Avoids confrontation and conflict

• Is skilled in understanding other people

• Is sympathetic

• Spontaneously appreciates the good in people and things

• View things from a personal perspective

• Is concerned about relationships and harmony

• Enjoys pleasing people, even in seemingly unimportant matters

• Enjoys subjects that concern people; needs to know how the topic affects people

• Has difficulty accepting criticism;; sarcasm and ridicule can be devastating

Feeling

• Accepting - tolerant towards human failings, see positive side of others, instinctually seeks win/win resolutions of problems.

• Tender Hearted - use gentle persuasion to influence, reluctant to force compliance.

• Accommodating - seeks consensus, deferential, conflict avoiding, seeks harmony.

• Affective - trusts emotions and feelings, values human considerations, in touch with feelings.

• Compassionate - makes decisions on overall impressions, patterns, and feelings (including emotional likes and dislikes).

Judging

• Prefers expectations for assignments to be clearly defined

• Likes to get things settled and finished

• Prefers completing one project before beginning another; too many unfinished projects can cause stress

• Doesn’t usually appreciate surprises

• Needs structure and predictability; frequent changes can be upsetting

• Gets assignments in on time

• Lives by schedules that are not easily altered

• Wants to do things the ‘right’ way and tries to make things happen the way they are ‘supposed’ to

• Works best when work can be planned and the plan is followed

• Is orderly, organized, and systematic

• Generally has good study habits

Judging

• Early Starter - focused. Structure activities to work on one thing at a time, allowing adequate time for proper completion.

• Systematic - prefers orderly, structured and programmed responses. Likes formal contingency planning.

• Scheduled - creates and easily follows standardized and familiar routines.

• Planful - likes to schedule future commitments far in advance, uses dates and deadlines to organize their energies.

• Methodical - implements projects in a planned, organized, and step-by-step manner. Self programming.

Perceiving

• Is curious

• May begin working on a task before the directions are completed

• Acts spontaneously

• Likes freedom to move and finds too much desk work to be boring

• Is cheerful and brings fun and laughter to the classroom

• Enjoys the activity itself more than the result

• Enjoys tasks presented as games

• Enjoys dramatizations and may like to perform

• Copes well with unplanned and unexpected changes and enjoys changes in procedures

• May start too many projects and have difficulty finishing them all

• Lets work accumulate and then accomplishes a lot with a last-minute flurry of activity

• May turn in assignments late as a result of poor planning or time management

Perceiving

• Pressure Prompted - prefers variety and multi-tasking. Most effectively energized when working close to deadlines.

• Casual - comfortable making adjustments as situation requires. Prefers informal guidelines vs. structured rules. Adaptable.

• Spontaneous - dislikes repeatedly following the same routines. Seeks variety and change.

• Open-ended - strongly values preserving flexibility and freedom, dislikes being tied down by long range plans. Makes flexible plans.

• Emergent - ad hoc planner. Moves quickly into action without

detailed plans, plans on the go. Risk taking.

Characteristics of Each Type

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