Different Learning Styles: Exploring the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Thesis: Students on a secondary level of education will learn more effectively if their MBTI have been assessed and accommodated to.
All students process information differently. These differences can be explained using the Myers-Briggs type indicator. Students on a secondary level of education will learn more effectively if their MBTI have been assessed and accommodated to.
The Myers-Briggs type indicator (MBTI) is a type of personality test to determine a person’s personality type and thus their learning style. The MBTI is based on the work of the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and the American mother and daughter team of researchers; Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers (Opt, 2000). Jung was able to group peoples personalities into three basic classifications: extroversion vs. introversion, sensing vs. intuition, and thinking vs. feeling (literacynet.org, October 22, 2001). Jung published his findings in a book call Psychological Types, first seen in English in 1923 (Opt, 2000). Myers and Briggs studied and built onto his finding twenty years later, adding the fourth classification of judging vs. perceiving, and, in 1962, the MBTI was established (literacynet.org, October 22, 2001).
Personality typing is a way of identifying ways in which people differ from each other. The Myers-Briggs type indicator consists of four primary differences with two opposite reactions to each. The first set of preferences explains where people extract their mental energy from. Extroverts extract their energy from their surroundings and other people. They prefer lots of action and interaction with others. Introverts are the more think-it-through type and...
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Opt, S.K. & Loffredo, D.A. (2000). Rethinking communication apprehension: a Myers-Briggs perspective. Victoria, TX: Heldref Publications.
This describes the history of the MBTI.
Carroll, R. (2001, December 3) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The Skeptic’s Dictionary. Retrieved October 31, 2001 from http://skepdic.com/myersb.html
This site gives an in-depth background of Carl Jung along with some statistics about the MBTI.
Lunenburg, F. (2000, March). America’s Hope: Making Schools Work For All Children. Journal of Instructional Psychology. 27(1) pp. 39-47. Retrieved from ERIC September 30, 2001.
This article discusses how appealing to a child’s learning type (using the mbti) might decreases the chances of dropping out of school
Joseph, N. (1999). Research Writing: Using Traditional and Electronic Sources.New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc.
From the above test I undertook, it is evident that I incline more to being an extrovert than an introvert. Even though I strongly disagree with the fact that my emotional intelligence is low, as per the results, I think the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test was unbiased and precise. This can be proven from my personality class, which is EFNJ.
Blood types can be categorized in many different ways. Karl Landsteiner categorized “the first three blood groups…[as] A, B and C (subsequently renamed O from the German word “ohne” which means “without”)” (Franchini 1545). Each of these blood groups also have unique properties that give the blood an inability to mix with other blood types. For example, Landsteiner has found out that type-A red blood cells contains an A-antigen and anti-B in its serum (Franchini 1545). Type A blood contains the monosaccharides N-acetylglucosamine, galactose, fructose, and “a N-acetylgalactosamine attached to galactose” (Timberlake 556).The A-antigen is used as an identifier for the body to determine whether something in the bodies system belongs or ...
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Suppose that you are standing on the surface of a planet. You throw a rock straight up into the air. Assuming you don't throw it too hard, it will rise for a while, but eventually the acceleration due to the planet's gravity will make it start to fall down again. If you threw the rock hard enough, though, you could make it escape the planet's gravity entirely. It would keep on rising forever. The speed with which you need to throw the rock in order that it just barely escapes the planet's gravity is called the "escape velocity." As you would expect, the escape velocity depends on the mass of the planet: if the planet is extremely massive, then its gravity is very strong, and the escape velocity is high. A lighter planet would have a smaller escape velocity. The escape velocity also depends on how far you are from the planet's center: the closer you are, the higher the escape velocity . The Earth's escape velocity is 11.2 kilometers per second (about 25,000 M.P.H.), while the Moon's is only 2.4 kilometers per second (about 5300 M.P.H.). We cannot see it, but radiation is emitted by any matter that gets swallowed by black hole in the form of X-rays. Matter usually orbits a black hole before being swallowed. The matter spins very fast and with other matter forms an accretion disk of rapidly spinning matter. This accretion disk heats up through friction to such high temperatures that it emits X-rays. And also there is some X-ray sources which have all the properties described above. Unfortunately it is impossible to distinguish between a black hole and a neutron star unless we can prove that the mass of the unseen component is too great for a neutron star. Strong evidence was found by Royal Greenwich Observatory astronomers that one of these sources called Cyg X-1 (whic...
Blood typing works by detecting the presence and absence of A and/or B antigens on the surface of the red blood cells. An individual with type A has an A antigen, and a person with type B has a B antigen. People with type AB had both antigens and people with type O does not have the antigens. It is also used to determine Rh factor with anti- D antiserum. ABO blood typing is ascertained by adding a patient’s blood separately to an anti-A and anti-B antiserum and observe any signs of agglutination. Agglutination is happening to provide the reaction of the test. Agglutination with anti-A antiserum indicates the presence of A-antigen and type A blood. It goes for the same for the others, but different factors. Blood typing works because it determines a person’s blood type. It is important for the health care providers to know an individual's blood type on the grounds that a person has a blood transfusion or transplant. This is because not all blood types are compatible with each other. The blood type that is considered a “universal donor” is type O negative because there are no proteins (A and B antigens) on the red blood cells, which means anyone can receive the blood without suffering any rejections. The blood typing that is called the “universal recipient” is type AB blood because the immune system of a person with AB blood will accept blood from all possible donors, whether they have O, A, B, or AB
There are four types of blood, Type A, Type B, Type AB, and Type O. Antigens are proteins and different types of sugars that our bodies use to identify the blood cells that correspond with our blood types. Blood cells markers (antigens) are very small. In fact, they are microscopic. They can make the decisions and can make differences if the blood is accepted or rejected after a transfusion. So medical experts make things easier and usually group blood into different types based on and according to their markers.
The following information can be found in the “Results and discussion” section: “The analyses reported above show that MBTI items fail to form the factors hypothesized by the test’s authors” (Saggino, Cooper, & Kline, 2001). The information I found in this study complimented the conclusion of the other article I reviewed. They both concluded that the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator had many faults and was not reliable nor valid as far as solid science is concerned.
The Myers and Briggs Analysis is a series of questions that when answered are examined and grouped together in order to determine the personalities of those taking this test. This particular test can result in sixteen different outcomes or types of personalities, which is determined by four different categories that judge if you are introverted or extroverted, use your senses or your intuition, your choice to think or use your feelings, and finally if you are judgmental or perceptive. These series of questions are designed to judge our personalities and help us to determine which career pathways we will be most suited for based on our personality traits and abilities to work well with others, which is important for our future decisions.
...Myers, Isabel Briggs., and Mary H. McCaulley. Myers-Briggs (MBTI) Manual: A Guide to the Development and Use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists, 1998. Print.
VI. Some individuals requiring blood are surgical patients; burn victims; accident victims; anemics'; hemophiliacs; seriously ill babies; and persons suffering from leukemia, cancer, kidney disease and liver disease.
It is easy to determine the blood group by determining the types of antigen on the surface of the red blood cell. The body will differentiate the own cells and foreign cell(potentially dangerous) with the aid of antigens.Blood group A has antigen A, blood group B has antigen B, blood group AB has both antigen A and antigen B, and the blood group O has no both antigens. If there is an antigen, there is an antibody. The human body(immune system)