Personality test
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A personality test aims to cataegorize an individual's temperament according to certain criteria.
A simple test that is very useful at determinating or picking a perfect career for you and that is influenced upon your personality type.
Types of personality tests include the Rorschach test, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Abika Test that compiles personality traits from the background information of an individual and the Thematic Apperception Test. Critics have pointed to the Forer effect to suggest that some of these appear to be more accurate and discriminating than the really are.
History of Personality Tests
Although ecompassing two and a half melllenia, remarkably the science of personality testing has consistantly maintained four basic categories of temperament.
- Greek philosopher/physician Hippocrates recorded the first known personality model basing his four “types” on the amount of body fluids an individual possessed.
- Greek physician Galen expounded upon Hippocrates' theory by tying the type of body fluid (blood, mucus, or bile) to type of temperment.
- German philosopher Immanuel Kant popularized these ideas by organizing the constructs along the two axes of feelings and activity.
- Wilhelm Wundt proposed that the four temperaments fall along the axes of changeability and emotionality.
- Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung categorized mental functioning into sensing, intuition, thinking, and feeling.
- Isabel Myers and her daughter Katherine Briggs devised a 16-type indicator of Jung's Psychological Types.
