Traits and Types
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- Created on: 23-01-18 22:30
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Types
- Classify people into distinct categories
- Categories are discontinuous
Traits
- Habitual patterns of behaviour, emotion and thought
- Differ among individuals but all share traits
- Continous
Carl Jung
- Two different personality types: one focusing on external world (extraversion) and one more internally orientated (introversion)
- Extraversion is an 'outgoing and accommodating nature that adapts easily to a given situation, quickly forms attachments and often ventures forth with careless coincidence into an unknown situation'
- Introversion signifies a 'hesitant, reflective, retiring nature that keeps to itself, shrinks from objects, is slightly on the defensive and prefers to hide behind mistrustful scrutiny'
- Jung classified ways in which people can relate to the world, suggesting four approaches
- > Sensing: we experience stimuli without real evaluation, simply register something is present
- -- Extraverts: reality orientate, act over think, pleasure seeking, enjoy good things in life
- -- Introverts: sensitive, overreact, calm and passive, artistic
- > Thinking:…
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