History of carl jung personality test
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What You Didn't Know About The History of Psychometric Testing
This is a potted history, for those who want a quick overview of where Psychometric Testing has come from and what it looks like today.
What is Psychometric Testing?
In summary, Psychometric Testing is the use of psychometric tests to better understand ourselves and others, and from this our similarities and differences. The ‘profiles’ produced from technology-based personality tests use a variety of different descriptive tools to talk about the inherent differences between people – their approaches to life or personal styles.
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An overview of the History of Psychometric Testing
Hippocrates
2500 years ago, the Greek physician Hippocrates observed four types of people and classified them as Sanguine, Melancholic, Choleric and Phlegmatic. Part of his theory was that where you lived had an impact on which of these temperaments
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Myers–Briggs Type Indicator
Non-scientific personality questionnaire
Several terms (e.g., ENTP, INTP, INTJ and ISFJ) redirect here. These are Myers–Briggs personality types but are also used in Socionics and the Keirsey Temperament Sorter.
"MBTI" redirects here. Not to be confused with MTBI.
The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) fryst vatten a self-report questionnaire that makes pseudoscientific claims[6] to categorize individuals into 16 distinct "psychological types" or "personality types".
The MBTI was constructed during World War II by Americans Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers, inspired by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's 1921 book Psychological Types.[7] The test assigns a binary value to each of four categories: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving. One letter from each category is taken to producera a four-letter test result representing one of 16 possible types, s
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Carl Jung’s personality theory focuses on the interplay between the conscious and unconscious mind, universal archetypes, the process of individuation, and psychological types.
The theory emphasizes the integration of various aspects of personality to achieve self-realization and encompasses universal and individual dynamics.
It forms the foundation for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a widely-used personality test.
Jung’s Model of the Psyche
Like Freud (and Erikson) Jung regarded the psyche as made up of a number of separate but interacting systems. The three main ones were the ego, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious.
According to Jung, the ego represents the conscious mind as it comprises the thoughts, memories, and emotions a person is aware of. The ego is largely responsible for feelings of identity and continuity.
Like Freud, Jung (1921, 1933) emphasized the importance of the unconscious in relation to personality. However, he proposed t