Wednesday 5 May 2010

Week 7 Personality

Nature is what makes us intrinsically, as humans on planet earth we are subject to certain forces that are beyond us or are not in our control. Those forces shape us, both internally and externally. Given our place in the ecosystem we share certain common interests and fears that distinguish our place within society and that's what nature is. Forces that we are usually unconscious of shaping our daily behaviour. On the other hand there are certain characteristics or behaviours that we learn from either our experience or adopt due to certain moral choices that we are given, in other words the idea of free will. Like for instance it's in our nature to eat, sleep or have a drive for sex but it's nurture that tells us how to go about meeting those ends in a most appropriate manner that makes us productive individuals. Nature is aimed at our primal urges and desires while nurture is what helps us adapt to our situations.
(blirtit 2007-2010)

I believe that nature has a great impact in the behaviour of a human, the reason for this is that the external influences effect your behaviour. The nature versus nurture debates concern the relative importance of an individual's innate qualities ("nature", i.e. nativism, or innatism) versus personal experiences ("nurture", i.e. empiricism or behaviorism) in determining or causing individual differences in physical and behavioral traits. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurture)
The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training; That which nourishes; food; diet; The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature; to nourish or nurse
(en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nurture)
in nature, the kind of care given to the young by the female; in man, an accompaniment of parental femininity. analog: protection. (www.ninthstreetcenter.org/nsc/Glossary.htm)
available from:
(http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rlz=1W1ADBF_en&defl=en&q=define:nurture&ei=OQrfS6K-OZPR-QaSx83wBg&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title&ved=0CAYQkAE)


Personality Traits: Idiographic vs. Nomothetic
However the whole issue of whether a trait exists in all people to a greater or lesser degree is complicated by different views of the trait perspective.There are two different views as to whether all traits exist in all people:
· Idiographic: people have unique personality structures; thus some traits (cardinal traits) are more important in understanding the structure of some people than others
· Nomothetic: people's unique personalities can be understood as them having relatively greater or lesser amounts of traits that are consistently across people (e.g., the NEO is nomothetic)
The Idiographic view emphasizes that each person has a unique psychological structure and that some traits are possessed by only one person; and that there are times when it is impossible to compare one person with others. This viewpoint also emphasizes that traits may differ in importance from person to person (cardinal, central and secondary traits). It tends to use case studies, bibliographical information, diaries etc for information gathering. The Nomothetic view, on the other hand, emphasizes comparability among individuals but sees people as unique in their combination of traits. This viewpoint sees traits as having the same psychological meaning in everyone. The belief is that people differ only in the amount of each trait. It is this which constitutes their uniqueness. This approach tends to use self-report personality questions, factor analysis etc. People differ in their positions along a continuum in the same set of traits.
Most contemporary psychologists tend towards a nomothetic approach (and the trait approach is often viewed solely as a nomothetic approach these days), but they are aware of how a trait may be slightly different from person to person in the way that it is expressed.
(accessed from personality traits 2004)


First test taken from http://www.shldirect.com/practice_tests.html

Second test taken from:
Human metric – Jung Typology test
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Your Type is ENTJ

Extraverted
Intuitive
Thinking
Judging
Strength of the preferences %
Extraverted = 6, Intuitive = 19, Thinking = 12 and Judging = 11
Qualitative analysis of your type formula


You are:
slightly expressed extravert
slightly expressed intuitive personality
slightly expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality

Would you be happy for such a test to be used as a selection tool, explain your answer.
I would not be happy if I had to take such a test for a selection process, I believe it does not really show a person’s true personality and it does not reflect their ability to do the job tasks they are applying for. These tests are designed the same for everyone, but people are different therefore have different talents. Some people do not get nervous when doing tests but others do so therefore it does not show the persons ability its just a source of information.

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