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Module I: Individual differences &

Personality
Personality: Definition& Relevance
Importance of nature & nurture in Personality
Development
Importance and Recognition of Individual
differences in Personality
Accepting and Managing Individual differences
Intuition, Judgment, Perception & Sensation (MBTI)
BIG5 Factors
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Personality Definitions
According to Allport Personality is the dynamic
organization within the individual of those
psychophysical systems that determine his
unique adjustments to the environment.
Personality can be defined as a dynamic and
organized set of characteristics possessed by a
person that uniquely influences his or her
cognition, motivations, and behaviours in various
situations (Ryckman, 2004).
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Determinants of Personality
NATURE(Heredity)
NURTURE(Environment)

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Introduction to MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)

MBTI is created by Isabel Briggs Myers and

her

mother,

Katharine

Briggs.

Myers

concluded there were four primary ways

people differed from one another i.e.

Kinds of Mental Processes, 2 Kinds of

Mental Orientations.
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

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Type of Social
Interaction

Extrovert (E)

Preference for
Gathering Data

Sensing (S)

Preference for
Decision Making
Style of
Decision Making

Introvert (I)

Intuitive (N)
Feeling (F)
Thinking (T)
Perceptive (P)
Judgmental (J)
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16 personality types
The permutations of these four preference dichotomies
result in the 16 personality types that form the basis of
Myers' model and the MBTI inventory.

ESTJ

ISFJ

ESFJ

ISTP

ESTP

ESFP

ISFP

ENTJ

INTJ

ENTP

INTP

ENFJ

INFJ

ENFP

INFP

ISTJ
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Extraversion

The
Big Five
Personality
Model

Agreeableness

Conscientiousness

Emotional Stability

Openness to Experience
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Activity1: Nature Vs Nurture

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Activity2:
Know your MBTI personality type
Undertake the personality test using the link given
below.
After looking at the results, give a brief description
of your personality type and the career that may
suit you as per the data given on the website
showing your results.
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgiwin/JTypes2.asp
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