The Characterization of

persons: some
fundamental conceptual
issues

Reporters:
Monica M. Paradero
April Mae C. Tagulabong
WHO ARE YOU REALLY?

? ?
WHAT MAKES YOU, YOU?
1. How do you define your
character
2. How about your
personality?
3. What is really the
difference between these
two?
.

Characters and personality are

both used to describe someone's
behavior
 is easy to read, and we're
all experts at it. We judge
people [as] funny,
extroverted, energetic,
optimistic, confident and etc.
 takes far longer to puzzle out,
it includes traits that reveal
themselves only in specific and
of uncommon circumstances,
traits like honesty, virtue and
kindliness.
 Easy to read  Longer to
 Slow to evolve know but easier
 Easier to spot to change
 • MBTI
• OCEAN

Most common tools for

identifying personality
traits.
 is an introspective self-report
questionnaire with the purpose of
indicating differing psychological
preferences of how people percieve
the world around them and make
decisions.
 by Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel
Briggs Myers inspired by Carl Jung
 The questionnaire they created
assess individuals based on pairs of
psychological preferences

•Extroversion Versus Introversion

•Sensing Versus Intuition
•Thinking Versus Feeling
•Judging Versus Perceiving
both are called attitudes
 action-oriented
 often prefer more frequent
interaction
 recharge and get their energy
from spending time with people
 Initiating
 Expressive
 Gregarious
 Active
 Enthusiastic
 thought-oriented
 prefer more substantial
interaction
 recharge and get their energy
from spending time alone; they
consume their energy through
the opposite process.
 Recieving
 Contained
 Intimate
 Reflective
 Quiet
information gathering
 People who prefer sensing
are more likely to trust
information that is in the
present, tangible and
concrete: that is, information
that can be understood by the
five senses.
  Concrete
 Realistic
 Practical
 Experiential
 Traditional
Intuition tend to trust information
that is less dependent upon the
senses, that can be associated with
another information, they maybe
interested in future possibilities.
 For them, the meaning is in the
underlying theory and principles
which are manifested in the data.
 Abstract
 Imaginative
 Conceptual
 Theoritial
 Original
 Decision-making (judging
functions)
 tend to decide things from
a more detached standpoint,
measuring the decision by
what seems reasonable,
logical, causal, cconsistent,
and matching a given set of
rules.
 Logical
 Reasonable
 Questioning
 Critical
 Tough
 tend to come to decisions by
associating or empathizing with the
situation, looking at it from the inside
and weighing the situationto achieve,
on balance, th greatest harmony,
consensus and fit, considering the
needs of the people involved.
 Empathetic
Compassionate
 Accomodating
 Accepting
 Tender
reflects how a person regards
complexity
 Tend to have a structured way
or theory to approach the world.
 They will always try to make
accomodation between new
information and their structured
world, which might only be
changed with discretion.
 Systematic
 Planful
 Early starting
 Methodical
 Perceiving types that will be more
willing to change without having a
prior structured world.
 casual
 open-minded
 prompted
 spontaneous
 emergent
 There is definitely strength in
numbers, and the MBTI has
popularity on its side:
Most people have a passing
familiarity with it, and many, many
organizations and individuals have
used it for professional and personal
reasons.