Personality

A: The individual may engage in the following DEFENSE MECHANISMS…


 * ** Defense Mechanism ** ||  ** Definition **  ||  ** Example **  ||
 * 1. Denial || Refuse to experience a certain situation || Denying yourself about the truth. a dad walked out on the family and later in life someone asks where your dad is and you say hes on business trip. ||
 * 2. Repression || “Motivated forgetting”; failure to remember a traumatic event || Something tramatized you and try to forget about it. could be scared of the ocean because maybe stung by jellyfish and just not go in the water. ||
 * 3. Compensation || Striving to make up for unconscious impulses or fears || Firefighters and doctors who deal with blood. So they have to make up for not liking it. ||
 * 4. Isolation (Intellectualization) || Removing emotion involved with difficult/painful experience || a person who has cancer and asks what are some ways to cure it and take medicine. ||
 * 5. Displacement || Redirecting impulse on a symbolic substitute || Throwing anger at someone else when the previous person made you mad. or punching the wall when the wall didnt do anything to you. ||
 * 6. Reaction Formation || Changing desire into its opposite || if you hate someone and you treat them really friendly to not show your true feelings. ||
 * 7. Undoing || Use of rituals you believe will remove unpleasant thoughts or feelings || Lady Macbeth is trying to undo the things by trying to wash her hands from the bad things. ||
 * 8. Introjection (Identification) || Incorporating personality characteristics of someone else into your own personality in order to deal with a specific situation || To fit in with people you change the way you act. ||
 * 9. Projection || Unconscious attributing one’s own unacceptable thoughts to another person || if failing in a class, people say the teacher hates me or doesnt like them. ||
 * 10. Regression || Revisiting/returning to a mental/psychological time when you were faced with stress or conflict || an adult starts to play with toys and when a new married girl runs to to parents after having her first fight with her husband. ||
 * 11. Rationalization || Distorting facts to make an event or desire less threatening || If a person is turned down on her date, she would say that person didnt attract her. ||
 * 12. Sublimation || Transforming an unacceptable impulse into a socially acceptable one || positive outcome for yourself. So if your stressed or angry you can take a walk and get fresh air. ||

Date: 11/14/2010
Psychology - Personality Assessment

Part I - Tests // Directions: Visit the following web site and fill out the survey to find out your personality type: // []

Answer the survey online and submit it to find out your personality type. When taking the survey, it is best not to dwell on the questions but to follow your first instinct. Answer the following questions. 1) What is your personality type? What does each letter mean? List the strengths of each of your preferences.

ESFJ ||
 * Your Type is


 * Extraverted || Sensing || Feeling || Judging ||
 * Strength of the preferences % ||
 * 11 || 12 || 25 || 56 ||

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
 * slightly expressed extravert


 * slightly expressed sensing personality

ESFJ type description by D.Keirsey ESFJ Identify Your Career with Jung Career Indicator™ ESFJ Famous Personalities ESFJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss
 * moderately expressed feeling personality



2) Click on the two type descriptions for your personality and read them. Print out __one__ of the personality summaries. Name 2 or 3 parts of your personality summary that stand out in your mind. Why are these parts most important to you?  These parts are very important to me because I care about other peoples feelings. Also, i am always concern about other people in their needs.

3) Is your personality assessment accurate? Why or why not?

No, it is not all that accurate. Sometimes i am not always gregarious. I am usually really shy and i end up opening to someone if i get to know them more.

4) Which statements in the personality summary do you disagree with?  I disagree with when it says I strike a conversation with strangers.

5) Which parts are most accurate to you?  Friendly, neighborly, provide for other, and are sensitive to other people.

6) List several famous people who have the same personality type as you.  Kim Yuna, Selena Gomez, Snsd, and Hilary duff.

7) Find a partner you know fairly well. Exchange personality summaries. Below, write your partner’s name and personality type. Do you think that your partner’s summary is accurate? Why or why not? Andrew Chen. Personality type is Enfj. I think this is accurate because he has these personality traits.

Here is another example of a popular personality test, the Keirsey Temperament Sorter. Y ou have to provide an email address to get your results. http://www.keirsey.com/sorter/register.aspx

8). What were your results? How do they compare to the previous test?

is designed to help job seekers, those considering or undertaking a career change, and students planning for future careers, understand how the needs and preferences of temperament shape their career development process. It includes a list of occupations that match the typical work style shared by people of your temperament.

provides an in-depth description of your personality type and provides a solid foundation to improve communication with others, understand your preferred working environment and understanding the behavior of others. is designed to help you excel at school. Based on your Temperament results, it provides specific tips for studying, test-taking, developing better relationships with your instructors, and other aspects related to your performance in school.

Compared to the previous test, this test is more accurate.

Part III - Unconscious Tests One of Freud's major contributions to the field of psychology was his study of the unconscious. People often do not say what is on their mind, either because they are unwilling or because they are unable to do so. You will explore this theory in a series of tests at the Project Implicit site run by Harvard. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

Click on "Demonstration." read the IAT Home page, then click on the "go to demonstration tests" link at the bottom. Read then Preliminary Information and then click on "I wish to proceed." You may chose any of the sample tests.

1). Which test did you try? Why did you pick this one?


 * //Religion// ('Religions' IAT).** I picked this one because it had to do with religion.

2). What were your results?

My results came out just how i predicted.

3). Explain your reactions to this test. What does this say about your unconscious?

My unconsciousness is normal to my personality.

Part IV - Freud The following site lets you explore some of Freud's personal belongings and furniture. The first one shares background information on Freud's life: http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/freud.html

This one explores his belongings: http://imet.csus.edu/imet3/drbonnie/sp02project/ex1intro.htm

1). After exploring these sites, reflect on what you learned about Freud. hE had many ideas that were crazy and had ridiculous ideas. 2) Has your opinion of him changed? Why or why not? yes, i thought he was really smart and thought normally but not anymore.