Personality Testing

Introvert or Extravert

Sensory vs Intuitive

Not good at predicting success

Thinker vs Feeler

Judging vs Perceiving

Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism

Often considered the most accurate
and diverse form of personality testing currently available

Not defined personality "types", but more broad personality groups that form a gradient between people

Type A vs Type B

Type A: Anal, attentive, work-minded. Tend to prioritize hard work and gain satisfaction from accomplishing tasks that require logical thinking.

Very general and not applicable to all people. Actual humans may lean to one personality type other but the classifications are far to general to provide any concrete psychological evaluation or predict success.

Type B: Relaxed, steady-headed, creative. Tend to gain satisfaction from tasks involving creativity and abstract thinking. Generally laid-back and less engaged with mathematics and similar topics than type A personalities.

IQ and EQ

IQ: Quantified through standardized testing. Score of the test taker's affinity for spatial awareness, math, and analytics.

EQ: Tested through various personality tests and evaluations. Score of the test taker's ability to understand other people's emotions and interact with social situations in positive ways.

Numerically quantifying systems are limited and do not provide reliable way to determine intellect and success.

Growth vs Fixed Mindset

Growth Mindset: A willingness to take failure and turn it into success - exhibits an active desire to improve. Generally sees improvements, even when failure occurs.

Growth mindsets help improve productivity and mood

Fixed Mindset: Lacks initiative or confidence to make improvements. Essentially the doomer mindset - setbacks often can feel like the end of the world, like the person is in question is in quicksand and can't get out.

Problem Solving

4 Stages

Id

Our primal brain sourced from the hunter-gatherers of our past. Purely instinctual and societally unacceptable in the current day, but important for survival nonetheless. Regulated by the superego and its direct opposite.

Ego

The ego acts as a center point between the superego and the id, controlling the Id's animalistic urges to make them more acceptable to the world while also stopping the superego from completely repressing the urges.

Superego

The idealized version of an individual's personality - the segment that manages the ego's behavior and forms complex moral standpoints and beliefs.

Holly B & Thomas B

Less accurate

More accurate

Often considered antiquated due to its questionably racist origins and new research into intellect and its inherent multifactededness

Creativity

Thinking "outside of the box"

"Name as many things as you can with wheels"

1. Flexibility - how many categories

2. Fluency - How many answers

3. Originality - did anyone else come up with the same answer

4. Elaboration - does it require explanation

Convergence

Divergence