Traits and Types

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  • Created by: Katalan
  • Created on: 23-01-18 22:30

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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