Singer-Loomis Type

Deployment Inventory

Pamela Buckle
 History of Type Theory
 Originated by Carl Jung
 Motivated by conflict with Freud
 Responded by developing a
personality theory
 Interpreted differently by
instrumentation (MBTI & SL-TDI)

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 Psychological Type Theory
 Orientation (E & I)
• Extraversion
• Introversion
 Functions (S, N, F, & T)
• Sensation
• Intuition
• Feeling
• Thinking
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 Orientations to the World:
Introversion and Extraversion
Introversion
• focuses on how external
events impact self
• processes outer events
in terms of their effect
on self
• takes actions based on
personal perspective
• rejuvenates self during
inner, reflective time
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Extraversion
• tries to influence the
external world of people
and things
• engages the world
actively
• takes actions based on
collective perspective
• rejuvenates self in
contact with others
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 Perceiving Functions
Sensing Intuiting
• focuses on the past and • focuses on the future
present possibilities
• gathers data through 5 • accesses preconscious
senses data
• notices differences, • notices similarities,
distinguishes between sees connections
things between things
• notices details, facts, • envisions big picture
figures potentials
• aware of practical, • imagines how things
immediate matters may change, risk-
taking, innovating
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 Judging Functions
Thinking Feeling
• uses impersonal logic to • uses values and ethics
filter data to make decisions
• sorts, labels, organizes • prioritizes - decides
information what’s good/bad,
• uses step by step right/wrong, fast/slow
sequential problem • needs to care
solving • values appreciation by
• employs if-then others
analysis
• focuses on rules,
procedures

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 Type Mode Profile
IS 69 Dominant
IN 66 Dominant
IT 61 Auxiliary
IF 56 Mid Mode
ES 53 Mid Mode
ET 53 Mid Mode
EN 46 Least Developed
EF 44 Least Developed
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 ES – Extraverted Sensing
 Characteristics:
• Notices details about the environment
• Has good memory
• Enjoys the good things in life (art, food, wine, sex, nature…)
• Lives in the moment, laid back, patient, tolerant
 Extreme use:
• Seeks pleasure at any cost
• Gets lost in the details (forgets the big picture)
 Low use:
• Fails to notice the surrounding environment and details right in
front of oneself
• Tends to wear clothes that clash
 Examples of use:
• CSI, James Bond, Frasier
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 IS – Introverted Sensing
 Characteristics:
• Keen awareness of bodily sensations
• Persevering, good with routine, focused
• Remembers details
 Extreme use:
• Maintains stubborn loyalty to your own inner certainty – holds
grudges
 Low use:
• Fails to notice details
• Gets surprised by apparently ‘sudden’ bodily needs
• Stores stress & anxiety in the body because ignores bodily
needs
 Examples of use:
• Athletes, Spiderman (‘my spider sense is tingling!’)
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 EN – Extraverted Intuiting
 Characteristics:
• Focuses on visionary ‘big picture’ outcomes
• Spontaneous, innovative, imaginative, a change agent
• Acquires new skills easily, versatile, adaptable
 Extreme use:
• Abandons projects prematurely
• Procrastinates endlessly
• Searches for new horizons
 Low use:
• Mistrusts own hunches
• Resists change, rigid, conservative/conventional
 Examples of use:
• Martin Luther King, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Thomas
Magnum
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 IN – Introverted Intuiting
 Characteristics:
• Identifies many potential ways to reach a desired goal
• Sees possibilities in complex situations
• ‘Out-of-the-box thinking’, not limited to a single possibility for
long
 Extreme use:
• Overwhelms others identifying endless ways things might
change
• Takes on projects but never finishes


Low use:
• Struggles to see more than one solution to a problem
• Has a fatalistic view of the future
 Examples of use:
• Brainstorming, interior designers, MacGyver
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 ET – Extraverted Thinking
 Characteristics:
• Goal focused, strives for perfection & efficiency
• Labels, organizes things in collectively-understandable ways
• Upholds rules and regulations, ‘goes by the book’
 Extreme use:
• Focuses on justice to the exclusion of fairness
• Treats people impersonally, fails to consider context
• Thinks & acts bureaucratically
 Low use:
• Has difficulty implementing a plan
• Has difficulty applying words and labels to events or situations
• Sees cause and effect relationships where none exist
 Examples of use:
• Justice (is blind), Mr. Spock, doctors with poor bedside manner
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 IT – Introverted Thinking
 Characteristics:
• Solves problems using sequential, rational processes
• Curious, enjoys games of skill & intellectual debate
• Works independently, committed to own theories about
things

 Extreme use:
• Becomes lost in thought and increasingly abstract ideas
• Keeps important ideas to themselves

– Low use:
• Appears highly critical, lacks concern for people
• Finds it difficult to solve problems alone

 Examples of use:
• Absent-minded professors, Einstein, Sherlock Holmes
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 EF - Extraverted Feeling
 Characteristics:
• Understands rules of social etiquette and uses them gracefully
• Displays warmth, friendliness, sensitivity, tact, empathy
• Creates harmony, exhibits zest & enthusiasm

 Extreme use:
• Interferes in others’ lives to help them to live “properly”
• Sacrifices own needs for those of others
• Takes criticism personally, avoids conflict
• Ignores important tasks, focusing solely on relationships

 Low use:
• Forgets/fails to notice things that are important to others
• Has low need for consensus/harmony

 Examples of use:
• Social committees, Edith Bunker, Felix (Star Trek), Kitty (That
70s Show), My Big Fat Greek Wedding
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 IF – Introverted Feeling
 Characteristics:
• Uses own personal values to judge people and things
• Resists peer pressure
• Strongly devoted/loyal to people, causes, purposes
• Appears reserved, distanced, lacking affection

 Extreme use:
• Adheres tenaciously to own personal standards
• Lives in a private, isolated world
• Withholds displays of empathy and affection

 Low use:
• Struggle to figure out what you want or value
• Become moody when trying to figure out what’s important to
you

 Examples of use:
• People fighting to uphold personal principles, Norma Rae,
Oprah Winfrey, Greenpeace, Susan Sarandon, Lisa Simpson
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 Psychological Type Theory
Lessons
 People use each type mode to varying
degrees
 Differences in how we use type modes:
• Make us unique
• Lead to interpersonal conflicts
 Understanding type modes helps us
recognize:
• Our strengths, blind spots
• Where we need to grow

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