Personality test
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A personality test aims to describe aspects of a person's character that remain stable across situations.
Types of personality tests include the Rorschach test, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Abika Test and the Thematic Apperception Test.
History of personality theory
- Greek philosopher/physician Hippocrates recorded the first known personality model basing his four “types” on the amount of body fluids an individual possessed.
- Greek physician Galen expounded upon Hippocrates' theory by tying the type of body fluid (blood, mucus, or bile) to the type of temperament.
- German philosopher Immanuel Kant popularized these ideas by organizing the constructs along the two axes of feelings and activity.
- Wilhelm Wundt proposed that the four temperaments fall along the axes of changeability and emotionality.
- Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung categorized mental functioning into sensing, intuition, thinking, and feeling.
- Katherine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers devised a 16-type indicator of Jung's Psychological Types.
See also
External links
- Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (in German, with a focus on the German version) (http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/WWW/MathNat/Ruch/Research/epq.html)
- Personality Test based on research since 1989. (http://www.colorwize.com/Personality_Test.htm)