How do you compare to past classes?
For the last two years, SHS Psychology classes have taken this personality test. Below are the results. Click on the image to advance the slideshow. To look at the enlarged charts and raw data click here
Can brain injury affect personality?Case Study: The Curious Case of Phineas GagePhineas P. Gage was a railroad construction foreman now remembered for his incredible survival of an accident which drove a large iron rod through his head, destroying one or both of his frontal lobes, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and social functioning—effects said to be so profound that friends saw him as "no longer Gage." His case influenced 19th-century thinking about the brain and the localization of its functions, and was perhaps the first to suggest that damage to specific regions of the brain might affect personality and behavior. (source: wikipedia.com)
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Personality Tests
Type Theory Tests
Other Personality Test
BackgroundType theory suggests that human behavior is not random but predictable and classifiable. On the basis of your answers to this test you are placed in one of 16 types (see below). What type you are says quite a bit about you -- your likes and dislikes, your likely career choices, your compatibility with others, and so on.
What are Personality Types?Personality type refers to the psychological classification of different types of people. Personality types are distinguished from personality traits, which come in different levels or degrees. (source: wikipedia.org)
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Case Study: Howard Dully's Lobotomy
My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's JourneyListen to Howard Dully tell his story of surviving a trans-orbital lobotomy when he was 12 years old in the radio documentary 'My lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey (NPR: Jan. 2004)
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"
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History of Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorAccording to type theories, for example, there are two types of people, introverts and extraverts. According to trait theories, introversion and extraversion are part of a continuous dimension, with many people in the middle. The idea of psychological types originated in the theoretical work of Carl Jung and William Marston. (source: wikipedia.org)
Building on the writings and observations of Carl Jung, during World War II, Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katherine C. Briggs delineated personality types by constructing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. (source: wikipedia.org)
Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorExtraverted (E) or Introverted (I)
Sensing (S) or iNtuitive (N) Thinking (T) or Feeling (F) Judging (J) or Perceiving (P) What is your Personality Pattern? |
If you want to be happy, tell your amygdala to keep quiet. Use the brain map to find out where your amygdala is and what it does (BBC) Michael S. Gazzaniga is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1964, he worked under the guidance of Roger Sperry, with primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research. In his subsequent work he has made important advances in our understanding of functional lateralization in the brain and how the cerebral hemispheres communicate with one another. (source: wikipedia.com) Below Dr. Gazzaniga explains his split-brain research and shows a case study. Split-brain is a lay term to describe the result when the corpus callosumconnecting the two hemispheres of the brain is severed to some degree. The surgical operation to produce this condition is called corpus callosotomy. It is performed rarely, usually as a last resort in otherwise intractable epilepsy: to mitigate the risk of accidental physical injury by reducing the severity and violence of epileptic seizures. (source: wikipedia.com) Other impacts of epileptic seizures on perception. Bites like an Introvert Now that you've finished, take the entirely unscientific and utterly entertaining Oreo cookiepersonality test. Interesting article on flavor and personality that "revealed surprising links between perfectionism and the urges to munch tortilla chips and even a connection between introversion and the consumption of cream crackers. (BBC) Learn about the studies here. What gender is your personality? Take this battery of test to Find out here How does brain injury affect your personality? Read about Phineas Gage the railroad worker that survived a serious brain injury against all odds. But at what cost? Download this humorous take on the tale. My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey Listen to Howard Dully tell his story of surviving a trans-orbital lobotomy when he was 12 years old in the radio documentary 'My lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey (NPR: Jan. 2004) If you want to be happy, tell your amygdala to keep quiet. Use the brain map to find out where your amygdala is and what it does (BBC) Unit Handouts Online Personality Test .doc Instructions for the 3-D Personality Model.doc Instructions for the Brain Map.doc Key Links 'My lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey (NPR: Jan. 2004) Other BBC Psychological Tests 77 Optical Illusions Mind Games (Secrets of the Mind) Survey Project Parameters and Instructions.doc PerceptionKey Links Behind Your First Name The Human Mind Human Senses Human Body Sleep Mind Games (Secrets of the Mind) 77 Optical Illusions |
Confirmation Bias |