Assignment 5: Personality Development

Q.1 What does personality mean?

Personality refers to the enduring characteristics and behavior that comprise a person's
unique adjustment to life, including major traits, interests, drives, values, self-concept,
abilities, and emotional patterns.

Q.2 Explain in detail 2 determinants of personality

Psychologists say that our personality is mainly a result of four major determinants, i.e.
Physical (Biological/Hereditary), Social (the community you are brought up in and your
role in the community), Psychological (your behaviour, emotions and inner thought
patterns) and Intellectual (your values and beliefs).

Q.3 List 5 tips to pass a personality test.

1) Answer honestly but from a professional perspective. ...
2) Review the instructions carefully. ...
3) Don't pick too many (or too few) extreme responses. ...
4) Keep the job role in mind as you go. ...
5) Don't try to game the test. …
Q.4 What are the Myers-Briggs personality types?

The four categories are introversion/extraversion, sensing/intuition,

thinking/feeling, judging/perceiving. According to the MBTI, each person is said to
have one preferred quality from each category, producing 16 unique types.

Q.5 Why is the Five-Factor model better than the MBTI?

The Five-Factor Model, also called the Big Five, is a personality testing framework that
measures openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
Addressing issues of volatility, the results are based on a spectrum rather than
limited binaries – one of the major pitfalls of the MBTI.