Personality Assessment Assignment

Take the Big 5 Inventory at this website:http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/

Based on your results, define each trait below and give your percentile score.(Note: Percentile is the percent of people who score lower than you do on this particular trait.)

Openness to Experience:

Definition: ________________________________________________________

Your percentile score: _______

Conscientiousness:

Definition:_________________________________________________________

Your percentile score: ______

Extroversion:

Definition: ________________________________________________________

Your percentile score: ______

Agreeableness:

Definition: _______________________________________________________

Your percentile score: ______

Neuroticism:

Definition: _______________________________________________________

Your percentile score: ______

In looking at your personality scores, is there anything you would like to change about your personality? Explain.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Do you think we can change our personality as an adult, or are we stuck with what we've got? Were we born with our personality, was it developed in childhood, or does it continue to evolve throughout our life?

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Find out your 4-letter MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) code.

Take the "unofficial" version of the MBTI at one of the following websites:

https://www.truity.com/test/type-finder-research-edition

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp.

Report your results (your 4-letter code) here: ___________________

Consider validity (the degree to which it accurately describes your personality) and reliability (the degree to which it gives consistent results). Of the two personality tests (Big 5 and MBTI), which do you feel is most valid and reliable in your experience? Why?

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Notice that the Big 5 gives your level of each characteristic (your percentile score), whereas the MBTI tries to fit you in one category or another (E versus I, for example).Do you believe there are personality types (e.g., people are either introverts OR extroverts), or are our characteristics more a matter of degree (i.e., we fall somewhere in between the two extremes)?_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________