PSYC 330 Lecture 5: Myers-Briggs and Temperament

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 330
• Professor: Jody Bain

Document Summary

Social-social work, people you like are problems you like. Used in high school to maybe get an idea of. According to the ordinary person, the human being is free, changeable, influenced by the subjective world of experience, a product of the environment, and best understood from a holistic perspective. One is directed towards the outer world of activities, excitements, people, and things. The other is directed inward to the inner world of thoughts, interests, ideas, and imagination. Extraverted: act first, think/reflect later, feel deprived when cutoff from interaction with the outside world, usually open to and motivated by outside world of people and things enjoy wide variety and change in people relationships. Introverted characteristics: think/reflect first, then act, regularly require an amount of "private time" to recharge batteries, motivated internally, mind is sometimes so active it is "closed" to outside world, prefer one-to-one communication and relationships. Dominant introverted intuition: intp & istp personality types.