Chapter 14: Personality Tests: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

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Chapter 14Personality Tests Myers-BriggsType
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• Mr. McCormick
• Psychology

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Personality Tests

• Personality Test
• An instrument used to measure a persons traits,
  behaviors, and unobservable characteristics and
  to identify problems

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• A self-inventory personality test designed to
  identify a persons personality type,
  strengths, and weaknesses
• Developed by Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs
• Four dimensions assessed
• Extraversion (E)/Introversion (I)
• Sensing (S)/Intuition (N)
• Thinking (T)/Feeling (F)
• Judging (J)/Perceiving (P)

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Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorDimensions
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Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorDimensions
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Dimensions
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

• Find out what your MBTI type is!
• Take the test
• http//www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

• Find out more
• about your MBTI type!
• Type Characteristics
• http//www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-typ
  e/mbti-basics/
• Recommended Type Careers
• http//www.personalitypage.com/html/ISTJ_car.html

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Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorType Combinations
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Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorFrequency of Types
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Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorFamous Peoples
Types