Day 9 - Personality

Today topic was about “Personality”. Mr Eranjan started today lecture in a different way. He conducted a personality test which included several questions for student. Following are the questions,

The questions were simple and straightforward. Students answered those questions simply and for some it was confused. Objective of this personality test was to,

• Test whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.  
• Test your ability to think through the repercussions of your actions.
• Test your memory.
• Test whether you learn from your mistakes.

After the personality test, Mr Eranjan talked about some important facts regarding personality. Following are some critical points discussed during today’s lecture.

What is personality?

According to Oxford Dictionary (2012) personality is the “combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive.” 

John Henry Holland which is an American scientist and Professor of Psychology, has categorized personality into 6 types,

1. Realistic - Prefers physical activities that require skill, strength, and coordination. 
2. Artistic - Likes to do creative activities like art, drama, crafts, dance, music, or creative writing.
3. Social - Likes to do things to help people -- like, teaching, nursing, or giving first aid, providing information.
4. Enterprising - Likes to lead and persuade people, and to sell things and ideas.
5. Conventional - Likes to work with numbers, records, or machines in a set, orderly way.
6. Investigative - Likes to study and solve math or science problems; generally avoids leading, selling, or persuading people.

After discussing above points, there was a small group activity. Each group consist of four members were given a scenario and one member has to observe one other group and find answers for list of questions.  After the group activity session was concluded.

Reflection of today's lecture

Today I learned some important facts regarding personality. Main thing I learned from today’s lecture was that personality is something that unique to a person. It’s different from person to person. According to John Holland’s six personality theory, I felt that I belong to social category. With the group activities, sessions are getting more fun and entertaining day by day. With today’s lecture I was able to understand what personality means in theoretical way, which could help me in the future career. Overall it was an important and interesting session. 

 

References

Oxford Dictionary. 2012. Definition of personality. [ONLINE] Available at:http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/personality. [Accessed 26 July 12].