Starting off with critical thinking this was a big lesson in the beginning of the year and has been carried all through the semester in this class. Critical thinking is the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment. You should be open minded to new ideas or thoughts having your creativity flow as well as carefully exam what you are discussing. Critical thinking as a learner does help me keep my open mindedness, because sometimes I do have that mental block, but anyone can. Keeping in mind though, with myself, to think critically helps me be more analytical and see things from both sides expands my thinking as a learner. Being able to think critically opens up a lot of higher educational thinking and personally I feel thinking and speaking critically you sound more confident in what youre talking about.
As for the Myers and Briggs personality test my score could have not represented how I am any better. Now normally I think these things are made up but after I calculated my numbers and everything was set, I was left shocked. For those who dont know what the Myers and Briggs personality test is, its purpose is to make the theory of psychological types d
escribed by C. G. Jung understandable and useful in peopleΒs lives. The main stressor of the theory is that random variation in behavior is actually quite normal and consistent, being due to familiar differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment. On the test I had scored the highest in the fourth preference pair which describes how I like to live my outer life. Scoring the highest in perceiving, I prefer a flexible and spontaneous way of life, and I like to understand and adapt to the world rather than organize it, but what people dont see on the inside is that I am very planful and decisive. I like most things I do to be planned and done in an orderly fashion rather than all over the place, but I donΒt mind going with the flow every now and then. From my interpretation, Myers and Briggs believes that perceiving means preferring to take in information. Not to be confused with perceptive, meaning having quick and accurate assumptions about things or people. Some things that generally apply to me are that I can be very open minded to respond to anything that happens, I appear to be loose and casual, and I do like to work in bursts of energy at times.