This document provides an introduction to personality types and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment. It discusses the origins of the MBTI, describes the 16 personality types identified by the assessment, and gives examples of each type. The goal is to help learners understand their own personality type and how it relates to their preferred learning style. After reviewing the material, learners should be able to identify their type, compare types, and apply types to fictional characters. A number of online resources are referenced for further information.

1. IntroductionPersonalityTypesThis Slidecast was developed as a way for user's to find out what their personality type is and how they learn best.By Gordon Willis Wayne State UniversityFebruary 14, 2011

2. BackgroundInformationThe original developers of the personality inventory were Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers. They began creating the indicator during World War II, believing that a knowledge of personality preferences would help women who were entering the industrial workforce for the first time to identify the sort of war-time jobs where they would be "most comfortable and effective".

3. MTBI 16 Personality TypesAssessmentThe Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is psychometricquestionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. These preferences were extrapolated from the typological theories proposed by Carl Gustav Jung and first published in his 1921 book Psychological Types (English edition, 1923).

4. MTBI 16 personality TypesCPP Inc., the publisher of the MBTI instrument, calls it "the world’s most widely used personality assessment“with as many as two million assessments administered annually. The definitive published source of reference for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is The Manual produced by CPP. However, the registered trademark rights to the terms Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and MBTI havebeen assigned from the publisher to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Trust.

5. Identification of variousdifferentPersonalityTyesExtraverted Sensing (modern types: ESFP, ESTP)

6. Introverted Sensing (modern types: ISTJ, ISFJ)

7. Extraverted Intuition (modern types: ENFP, ENTP)

8. Introverted Intuition (modern types: INFJ, INTJ)

9. Extraverted Thinking (modern types: ESTJ, ENTJ)

10. Introverted Thinking (modern types: ISTP, INTP)

11. Extraverted Feeling (modern types: ESFJ, ENFJ)

12. Introverted Feeling (modern types: INFP, ISFP) Examples Of 16 Personality TypesISTJ - The Duty Fulfillers

13. ESTJ - The Guardians

14. ISFJ - The Nurturers