Reading Response Research Paper

Personality is a complex area of Psychology, which has been studied for many years, by many experts in the field. Each having their own ideas about how to understand, study and evaluate it. Here I will introduce personality briefly, looking at the theories behind it. Then explain the need for testing. As there are many test that are available to use, for the purpose of this essay I will look at The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and discuss the reliability and validity of some studies around these tests.

Solving My People Puzzle Phase 1 involves discovering my personality. This paper will bring to light how I operate through the descriptions that are provided, throughout this paper. Part of this assignment, I had to submit a survey to at least two of the people who knew me best and they had to describe me based on the questions that were on the survey. I also had to participate on an online assessment and disclose its results. This journey of discovering me, made me come face to face (according to the assessment), the “me

Understanding people and their personality can be very complicated; people have different personalities and ways that they view things. The student will identify her own people puzzle by utilizing the resources provided in the course. The resources will help the student answer the three questions provided, as well as, the different assessments. As the student answers the questions, they will be able to manage their relational style. The resources and assessments provided will help the student understand her own unique personality.

Personality assessments can serve as a powerful and impactful tool that benefits the participants or others with whom your paths may cross. Inevitably, taking assessments like this requires self-awareness in order to maximize the value of the results. In this case, the McGraw-Hill assessment covered a wide array of topics which provided an extensive assessment of my values, personality style, motivational influences and contributing factors that drive my behaviors (McGraw-Hill Education, 2017). This evaluation offered me personal insights on how I behave in various situations, the impact my behavior may have on others, additional context around my personality traits and style, and organizational considerations that may influence my actions,

The purpose of this paper is to discuss characteristics of my personality. The main focus of this paper will be how my personality has developed over time. As I age and encounter new and different experiences, my personality has adapted and developed further. This paper will give an in-depth exploration into the people and events that have influenced my personality.

The purpose for this interview assessment is to measure an individual’s personality by having two interviewees who know them very well answer questions about them. The Informant Report Data approach and the qualitative method are used for this test. The reliability, validity, and generalization of the test are examined separately in order to see how effective they are. The results provide characteristics of the individual and a reflection of their personal thoughts about the test. The findings concluded low degree of reliability and validity. The generalizability of the assessment was found to be moderately applicable to others. In my reflection, I concluded a pattern from the Self interview assessment and found motivation from my interviewees’ answers.

Personality and aptitude tests are imperative in order to understand ourselves and allow people a way to classify different traits that might not be realized. These tests can be done and used so that people can rediscover and improve through self-reflection,

This assessment shows its strength by the fact that I feel as though it matches with my life. Through this, I have gain insight to the fact that I could be helpful but almost to the degree in which I could be harmful to me. While reading the description, I was proud at some parts and discourage at others. However, I do have the understanding that every personality-type as a flaw. This assessment was useful in terms of gaining insight to my motivation, strengths and weakness of my personality. This can be a useful tool to use with clients.

The aspects of personalities that this test addresses are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Openness to experience involves the preference for exploration and a tolerance of the unfamiliar. A person who is high in openness to experience is flexible, creative, and adventurous. They enjoy having having variation in their day to day lives and are curious to learn or explore new things. A person low in openness to experience, however, tends to favor following routines and structure. Conscientiousness is the degree of organization one has and their goal-orientation. One who is high in conscientiousness tends to be highly responsible as opposed to one who is low

Part I of the Prentice Hall Self Assessment provided me with some interesting information about my personality, some of which was known and some that was new to me. The test covering my basic personality provided me with what I would consider known information. My scores were spot on for the Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Emotional stability, but what really surprised me was my score for openness to experience. In this category I scored a 7 which makes me a moderate-low in that area which I find to be the perfect score as I often have a tendency to lean towards those things that I am most familiar with, but I also have small interest in the unfamiliar and am slightly open to exploring new ways of doing things.

The following will reflect this researchers understanding and reflection on personality, how it defines one, what it means, and if one’s personality changes to fit certain situations. At the end this researcher may have a better insight into herself as well as the personalities of others. This insight can help her in her future endeavors.

Everyday people meet new people and sometimes they try to figure them out in order to see what kind of personality they have. People do this subconsciously or unconsciously. Personality isn’t easily defined because it’s a broad topic that is still being researched. A brief definition of personality would be that personality is made up of characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours that make a person unique – that means that the personality of an individual rarely changes and someone’s personality will not completely be the same as the person next to him/her because they are individuals and they are unique in their own way. The purpose of this review is to determine whether a person’s personality traits

Personality not only changes over time and experience but also manipulates as the individual goes through varying facades within their life. Several personality psychologists believe that personality is defined by five dimensions as suggested by McCrae and Costa (The ‘Big Five’ dimensions of personality?, V.Egan, 1988). This was found by testing the conduct group by allowing them to choose a solution to a question that the teste believed was most suitable and thus showed that the test groups had presented 5 dominant characteristics, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness (The ‘Big Five’ dimensions of personality?, V.Egan, 1988). Extroversion is looking into the individual’s excitability, sociability and the high amounts of emotional expression (Very Well, 2016).

Thinking of who I am in terms of personality is frustrating yet challenging. It is frustrating due to the uncomfortable fact I see not only the characteristics I like but the ones I cringe at. My obsession with solving all the problems in my life allows me to overcome impossible obstacles deemed unconquerable to the hopeless individuals in my life. The effect of that drive to overcome can also debilitate me to inaction until my brain can formulate the perfect solution due to fears of failure. There is also the desire to become wise so I never feel or inflict pain in my family’s life. This desire however produces self-examination so intense I end up a total buzz kill to any joy that happens upon me. My only escape from overthinking conversations, challenges in relationships, and being a goal-oriented workaholic is found in a worship or in nature devoid of people. The only place I can rest in the peace and presence of God. I can cast all my cares and worries on Jesus. Holy Spirit usually tells me in these moments what thoughts to let go and gives me clarity on how to handle my self-inflicted anxiety. To every trait that makes me who I am is a challenge to show and receive love from others. However, there are three character traits that most accurately describe the best parts of my personality.

By taking psychology this semester I have learned a lot about myself and my personality. Such as, by scoring high in the extravert section of the IPIP-NEO test means I am very enthusiastic, action-oriented, and a very assertive person. I like an active lifestyle being fast-paced and having the energy to get things done. I am very calm type person; I don’t react with intense emotions or situations that cause most people stress. I think in plain and simple terms but can be described as a down-to-earth, practical person. I need my time but don’t mind enjoying time with others. I get satisfaction out of setting clear goals and purse them with determination. I like to work hard and be reliable to completing tasks, I like to critique my work until it is perfect and I’m often tough on myself when doing my work.