Lab - Personal Preferences Flashcards
1
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Myers Briggs Type Indicator
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- based on Carl Jung’s psychological types
- developed by Katherine Briggs and daughter Isabel Briggs
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Uses of the MBTI
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- organisational development
- education
- career counselling
- counselling and psychotherapy
3
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Four dichotomies of MBTI
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The ways that people
- source and use their energy
- gather and take in information
- make decisions about what they have perceived
- organise their lives
4
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Source and use energy
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extraversion – introversion
5
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gather and take in information
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sensing – intuition
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make decisions about what they have perceived
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thinking – feeling
7
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organise their lives
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judging – perceiving
8
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extraverts
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- get their energy from the external world
- interested in the world of people and things
- more vocal, more sociable, and more easily understandable by others
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Introverts
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- get their energy from the internal world
- interested in their inner world of thoughts and reflections
- quiet, reserved and hard to get to know
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Sensors
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- prefer to take in information using their five senses
- live in the present, deal with the here and now
- practical, detailed and concrete
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Intuitives
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- see patterns and relationships
- focus on the future, imagining what could be
- abhor routine and detail, look for the big picture
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Thinkers
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- make their decisions based on impersonal, objective logic
- focus on fact and principles, not feeling
- like to follow rules and hate exceptions!
13
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Feelers
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- make decisions based on a person, value-based process
- focus on relationships and harmony, not thoughts
- can be inconsistent and soft
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Judgers
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- believe life should be organised and orderly
- like making decisions and organising others
- like working to a plan and having strong structure
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Perceptive Types
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- keep on asking what and why?
- want to explore options before deciding
- want to interact with the world in a flexible, spontaneous, adaptable way
