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A 5 page paper that discusses the origins of the MBTI and its relationship to Jung's personality types. The writer identifies the personality types per Jung and according to the MBTI. The writer also briefly comments on the ethics of administering personality assessments. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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personality types in 1923 and spent the next twenty years studying and researching to devise an instrument that would complement Jungs theories (KnowYourType, 2008). Myers and Briggs wanted to make
Jungs theories applicable and available to the general public (Adao, n.d.). Jung theorized that humans performed two basic functions in their lives, how we perceive things and how we
make decisions (BSM Consulting, 2006). He also believed that there were two opposite ways of functioning in each of these categories: we could perceive things through our senses or through
our intuition and we make decisions based either on objective logic or subjective feelings (BSM Consulting, 2006). While Jung believed we all use all four functions, we tend to use
each one with varying frequencies and the one we use the most determines our dominant function (BSM Consulting, 2006). Each of the other three are used in decreasing frequency, or,
the way Jung explained it, our "dominant function is supported by an auxiliary (2nd) function, tertiary (3rd) function, and inferior (4th) function" (BSM Consulting, 2006). Jung brought extroversion and
introversion into the theories of personality types (BSM Consulting, 2006). People either introverted or they extraverted their dominant function type (BSM Consulting, 2006). He concluded there are eight personality types:
* Extraverted Sensing (BSM Consulting, 2006). * Introverted Sensing (BSM Consulting, 2006). * Extraverted Intuition (BSM Consulting, 2006). * Introverted Intuition (BSM Consulting, 2006). * Extraverted Thinking (BSM Consulting, 2006).
* Introverted Thinking (BSM Consulting, 2006). * Extraverted Feeling (BSM Consulting, 2006). * Introverted Feeling (BSM Consulting, 2006). Both Katherine and Isabel Briggs developed theories that incorporated Jungs work, however,
this author says it was Isabel who was primarily responsible for bringing their work to the public (BSM Consulting, 2006). While working to sort the types and devise an instrument
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