Who am I? Reflect on what you learned about yourself from True Colors and Myers-Briggs assessments. Answer these questions completely. 1) How do your strengths and your personality type fit together to make you unique? The personality type that I was classified under for the Myers-Briggs was ISTJ, which stands for, introvert, sensing, thinking, and judging. All of the characteristics listed above describe me because I am an introvert. I like it when the extroverts take all of the attention. I…
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Community Assessment Self Reflection Throughout the formation of the community assessment assignment, the group I was a member of molded a unique group culture reliant on each group member’s personality and perceived role in the assessment. Individuals in this group were unified under a shared goal of producing quality written material for this assignment; however, during the process of merging the paper it became apparent that every member sought to achieve this goal by utilizing varying methods…
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in school but in everyday life. Your self-awareness guides the way you learn and the way you process information. Your self-awareness has more influence than you may realize. A few a weeks ago I was given an assignment, to complete a series of assessments and share my thought about what I discovered about myself. Do you know what intelligence is? It’s defined as our intellectual potential; something we are born with, something that can be measured and a capacity that is difficult to change. My two…
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most widely used and recognized personality preference instruments (Filbeck, Hatfield, & Horvath, 2005). The MBTI is essentially a personality typology using four pairs of contrasting traits to create 16 personality patterns (Abrams, 2011) (Fretwell, Lewis, & Hannay, 2013, p. 58). The MBTI was created by Isabel Briggs Myers along with her mother, Catherine Cooks Briggs. They integrated their concepts and research along with psychiatrist Carl Jung’s theory of personality. The purpose behind the MBTI…
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Aasland Page #1 Rosalita Aasland Julie Smith AAA 090 / Mon. & Wed. 12:10-1:25 Career Essay: Medical Interpreter The career as an ASL and Spanish medical interpreter requires much more knowledge then just learning a language. In this career one must be compassionate and have an understanding of the medical field. There is a great need for medical interpreters. This need comes from the increase in diverse cultural changes. Medical interpreters are needed in many languages. As a retired nurse, I know…
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One personality factor that can cause drivers to engage in road rage is having a “risk-taking” trait. According to Richard Dukes, “reckless driving produced road rage” (327). Those with a risk-taking trait often believe that accidents happen to others, ignorant of the consequences of having a ‘daredevil’ personality (Brewer 53). Because of such belief, this causes people that are willing to take risks to recklessly drive, which in return can transform into road rage. Additionally, as mentioned before…
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and Personality Learning Goals • Understand human perceptual processes and how people form impressions of others • Describe types of perceptual error and their effects on information people get from their environment • Explain attribution processes and their effects on perception and attitudes Learning Goals (Cont.) • Discuss the nature of attitudes, how they form and how they change • Explain the different views of human personality development • Discuss some dimensions of personality and several…
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Ageism and the Elderly Decrepit, senile, over the hill, old fart or slow driver are often the words you hear when referring to “the elderly”. In 1969, Robert Butler, the first director of the National Institute on Aging was the first to use the term “ageism” to describe the stereotyping of people because of their age. The term ageism contains a negative bias or attitude toward the aging. This it a form of discrimination. While there is other ‘isms used in American society; sexism, or racism…
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The article Diagnostic Bias and Conduct Disorder: Improving Culturally Sensitive Diagnosis by Mizock and Harkins reviews several research articles that highlight the cultural bias against adolescents of color over their white counter parts (2011). It points out how African Americans and Latinos are more likely to be diagnosis with severe behavior disturbance disorders, while their white counter part adolescents were diagnosed with milder mood disorders…
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in form of written test. It can be a set of questions which are asked from candidates. Question can be about response of candidate in certain situations, which workers come across while working in store often. Interview: Interview reveals the personality of candidate in front of recruiter. This brings out a lot of hidden information. It can also enable interviewer to know the viewpoint of candidate about organisation. It also helps in assessing how he would be behaving on the job he has been offered…
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