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Team Personality Traits Team D University of Phoenix Psychology of Personality PSY/250 Fatima Estrada December 18, 2011 Team Personality Traits For psychologists, knowing the difference between people’s personalities is very important to understand. However, there are so many people in the world so how can psychologists evaluate them' One way psychologists get their information is to analyze different people through the process of an assessment test. Assessment tests are used to gather information on people through a series of questions. Theses questions are formed by the psychologist and are geared towards a patient’s way of thinking. These tests can be very helpful; however, it is only accurate if the person taking the test is truthful. Team Member’s Results The assessment test that team member Aaron Messick took was an assessment test that many psychologists use. It was taken on the internet through a website, www.outofservice.com. The assessment test measures five fundamental dimensions of personality: openness to experience/intellect, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The results are measured by how the person taking the test responds to a series of questions and provides a percentage rate of how much the person relates to other people who have taken the test. It also rates the five different fundamental dimensions to their opposites. For example; open to new experiences is compared to closed minded; conscientious is compared to disorganized; extraverted is compared to introverted; agreeable is compared to disagreeable; and nervous/high-strung is compared to calm/relaxed, see graph below. |[pic] Aaron’s Results |  | |Closed-Minded |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |Open to New Experiences | |Disorganized |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |Conscientious | |Introverted |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |Extraverted | |Disagreeable |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |Agreeable | |Calm / Relaxed |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |Nervous / High-Strung | According to the assessment test, Aaron was considered to be somewhat conventional, 20 percentile in the area of openness to experience/intellect; this means down to earth, has narrow interests, and uncreative. Aaron received a 96 percentile on conscientiousness. This means he is very well organized, reliable, self-disciplined and careful. He received a 64 percent on extraversion. He is considered to be relatively social and enjoys the company of others. For agreeableness, Aaron received a 79 percent, and tends to consider the feelings of others. For the last one, neuroticism, Aaron probably remains calm even in tense situations. Nathan Yearsley used the Big Five personality test found on www.learnmyself.com to get the results of his personality traits. According to the test that he took he falls mainly under the trait of Neuroticism. It showed that he is a person who is always on guard for any possible threat whether it is a psychical or emotional. As for the trait of Extroversion he scored lower in this area it showed him to be reserved and does not usually reach out to others. In a group situation he is an active participant even though he prefers not to take the leadership role ("Learnmyself.com", n.d.). For the trait of openness it showed that he preferred the real world over fantasy, and that he is not very open to change. Agreeableness he showed to have a limited trust of people in general. The test also showed that he preferred to avoid conflict but that he would stand up for what he believes in and will fight for them. The test showed that he prefers justice over mercy. Conscientiousness in this trait he is shown to have According to “Learnmyself.com” (n.d.), “strong sense of duty and obligation to do the right thing” (Personality test). The test showed that he can be scattered and disorganized but that he has the will power to see that he completes the tasks he has to do. Nathan’s test results reflect that he is a person who is concerned for his safety and that things be done correctly all of the time. He is reserved because he fears the risk of be hurt in any form but at the same time he enjoys taking risks in life and having fun. He does not wish to fight but will fight for what he believes to be true and right. Nathan looks for things to be right and just and for things to be done fairly for everyone. Team member Adrian Sanchez took the personality examination from the website outofservice.com and was fairly surprised by the results. The test results confirmed that as far as the openness and experience intellect portion he is an individual and down-to-earth person that is not particularly fond of excessive changes in his life. He also has very narrow interests and is very uncreative, therefore, scoring in the tenth percentile in this category. In the Conscientiousness category Adrian scored in the 79th percentile, meaning that he is a well-organized and very reliable person. In the Extraversion category results indicated that Adrian is quiet, secluded, and probably enjoys spending time alone. According to Adrian the results are spot-on because, as a result of being an only child, he does not mind keeping to himself and spending time alone. Adrian scored high in the agreeableness category with a spot in the 87th percentile. People that score high in this category are very good- natured individuals who are kind, courteous, forgiving, and sympathetic. Neuroticism was the last category and Adrian scored in the 76th percentile. The test stated that he tends to become nervous or anxious depending on certain situations. This result came as a shock to him because Adrian always thought that he was good at handling stressful situations, but the test showed otherwise. | | | | | |[pic]Your Results | | |Closed-Minded |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |Open to New Experiences | |Disorganized |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |Conscientious | |Introverted |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |Extraverted | |Disagreeable |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |Agreeable | |Calm / Relaxed |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |Nervous / High-Strung | The results obtained by this personality test where reasonably shocking to Adrian, but while thinking back to prior situations in his life and the ways said situations were handled, he fully agreed with the results obtained in the assessment. Cristal Monrreal took a personality assessment test that was based on the five big factors of personality which are Extroversion, Agreeable, Conscientious, Neuroticism, and Openness. The Big Five factors represent a classification of traits that some personality psychologists suggest capture the essence of individual differences in personality. Her score on Extraversion was low because the test indicated that she was introverted, reserved, and quiet, but that she does enjoy solitude and solitary activities. Cristal’s socializing tends to be restricted to a few close friends, family and some co-workers. Her level of Agreeableness is average, indicating some concern with other’s needs; it also indicated that Cristal is neither extremely forgiving nor irritable. Her score on Conscientiousness was average, which means that she is a reasonably reliable, organized, and self-controlled person. Cristal’s score on Neuroticism was low which indicated that she is easily upset by things and that she is a generally anxious person and tends to worry about things, people consider her to be sensitive and emotional at times. Her score on Openness was low which meant that she likes to think in plain and simple terms, and other people describe her as down-to-earth, practical, and conservative person. Overall Cristal’s scores suggest that she is a quiet independent person, who likes spending time alone and keeps to herself at times. Her scores were 15 for Extroversion she likes to spend time alone, 57 for Agreeable she’s not so forgivable at times, 69 for Conscientious Cristal is a well-organized and reliable person, 87 for Neuroticism Cristal tends to worry over little things and is nervous some of the times, and 12 for Openness she prefers familiar and traditional experiences. |[pic]Cristal Monrreal’s Results |  | |Closed-Minded |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |Open to New Experiences | |Disorganized |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |Conscientious | |Introverted |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |Extraverted | |Disagreeable |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |Agreeable | |Calm / Relaxed |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |Nervous / High-Strung | With the differences that we have in our team’s personalities it is the same as being in a family we have the same goal in mind and must work together in achieving that goal. We will be able to work together by working off of each other’s strengths and weaknesses we know who is strong in what ways and will be able to play off of those strengths. We will also be able to build up the weaknesses of each team member and become a stronger team. Validity on a personality assessment test is only as valid as the information that is put into it. According to Cherry (2011), “Validity is the extent to which a test measures what it claims to measure. It is vital for a test to be valid in order for the results to be accurately applied and interpreted” (para. 1). Each member of our team felt their assessment test, for the most part, depicted an accurate result of their personality or characteristics. The questions asked in each of these assessment tests provided an answer that accurately represented the test taker’s personality traits. Based on the results, the tests appeared to measure what they intended to measure. This is an indication that these tests are valid. The reliability of the personality test that we took is questionable because they were done online and not by one who is trained in administering such test. The members of team D felt that even though the test may not have been completely reliable they did give results that seemed to be very accurate. During this team project, each of us had the opportunity to learn a lot about ourselves through the personality tests that were completed. There was some information that, at first, was a bit uncertain to some team members, but, through reflection of past events, we were able to fully come to terms with the results. We learned that the validity of this personality test requires one to be completely honest when answering questions. This guarantees that one will avoid getting false results, therefore causing a bit of confusion. When we first started this project our team had some doubts whether a personality test is accurate enough to measure our personalities; we are true believers now. Reference Atof Inc. (2009). Big Five Inventory. Retrieved from http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/ Cherry, K. (2011). What is Validity' Retrieved from http://psychology.about.com/od/researchmethods/f/validity.htm Learnmyself.com. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.learnmyself.com Personality Inventory (2011). Personality Project. Retrieved from http://http://test.personality-project.org