Personality
Personality is the unique and relatively stable pattern of thoughts, feelings, and actions. Each person's personality is unique to the person themselves. There are many experiences, factors, and reasons that makes someones personality unique.
Sigmund Freud's Theories
Personality Structure Theory: 3 Main Points
Id- The unconscious component of personality that operates irrationally and acts on the pleasure principle. The pleasure principle is seeking immediate gratification.
Ego- The rational, decision-making component of personality that operates according to the reality principle. The reality principle seeks to delay the gratification of the id's impulses until appropriate outlets can be found.
Superego- This represents internalization of society's standards, morals, and values; The conscience or moral personality component that incorporates parental and societal standards.
Psychoanalytic Theory: The mind contains 3 levels of consciousness & awareness.
Conscious- The thoughts or motives that a person is currently aware of or is remembering.
Preconscious- Freud's term for thoughts, motives, or memories that exist just beneath the surface of awareness and can be called to consciousness when necessary.
Unconscious- Freud's term for part of the psych that stores repressed urges or primitive impulses.
Assessment
Personality tests are methods used to assess a person's individual, unique personality. Most personality tests are in the form of questionnaires.
I decided to take the Eysenck Personality Test. Hans Eysenck, through research statistical analysis determined that personality is composed of three elements: Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Psychoticism. Extraverts are usually known for being loud and outgoing. The opposite of this would be an introvert. Neuroticism has to do with emotional instability. Psychoticism has to do with a persons normality.
My results for the test were:
Extraversion (sociability) 50%- The results were medium which suggests that I am moderately talkative, outgoing, sociable, and interacting.
Neuroticism (emotionality) 49%- The results were medium which suggests I am moderately worrying, insecure, emotional, and anxious.
Psychoticism (rebelliousness) 38%- The results were moderately low which suggests I am, at times, overly kind natured, trusting, and helpful at the expense of my own individual development.
Visit this link if you would like to take this personality test!
http://similarminds.com/eysenck.html
Visit this link if you would like to take this personality test!
http://similarminds.com/eysenck.html
My Thoughts
I would definitely say that my test results are highly accurate. I am shy at times, but I will talk if someone else talks to me first. Also, I am not afraid to interact with other people. At times I can be very insecure, and highly emotional. There are also times when I am too nice and trusting. At the same time I really like to help people when I can.
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