What is the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator? Part two

By now, I hope that you have a very clear understanding about the Myerss-Briggs personality test. You know what it means, and what the four dichotomies are.

(If you want a recap, look at the picture that accompanies this post)

I will now, try to explain what each dichotonomies mean, and what each preference is like.  

Introvert-Extrovert

The terms Introvert and Extravert (sometimes spelled 'extrovert') are sometimes referred to as attitudes. An introvert is more interested in the inner world of ideas; an extravert prefers the outer world of people and things.

Sensing-Intuition

Sensing and Intuition are the perceiving functions. Jung called them the irrational functions (as a technical term, not as a pejorative), as a person does not necessarily have control over receiving data, but only how to process it once they have it. 

Sensing people tend to focus on the present and on concrete information gained from their senses. Sensing prefers to receive data primarily from the five senses. Intuitives tend to focus on the future, with a view toward patterns and possibilities. 

These people prefer to receive data from the subconscious, or seeing relationships via insights.

Thinking-Feeling

Thinking and Feeling are the decision making (judging) calculus functions. They both strive to make rational choices, using the data received from their perceiving functions, above. 

Thinking people tend to base their decisions on logic "true or false, if-then" connections and on objective analysis of cause and effect. Feeling people tend to base their decisions primarily on values and on subjective evaluation of person centered concerns. Feelings use "more or less, better-worse" evaluations. 

It could be said that thinkers decide with their heads, while feelers decide with their hearts.

When Thinking or Feeling is extraverted, decisions tend to rely on external sources and the generally accepted rules and procedures. When introverted, Thinking and Feeling decisions tend to be subjective, relying on internally generated ideas for logical organization and evaluation.

Judging-Perceiving

The terminology may be misleading for some—the term "Judging" does not necessarily imply "judgmental", and "Perceiving" does not necessarily imply "perceptive" in the usual sense of the word

Judging and perceiving refer to the S/N and T/F dichotomies just described. J or P records which of the two dichotomies is used for dealing with the external world. J types tend to like a planned and organized approach to life and prefer to have things settled. P types tend to like a flexible and spontaneous approach to life and prefer to keep their options open

This concludes the educational piece regarding the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator. If you want to know what your Myerss-Briggs personality profile is, please do this test : http://www.truity.com/test/type-finder-research-edition

Until next time!

Sincerely 

Personality girl