IQ, Personality, Relationships and Heredity (session 2)

Assuming that IQ affects personality, and that personality and IQ affects how successful one's life will be, and that IQ and personality could be genetically inherited from your parents, then how successful in life one is is affected by heredity. And if this is the case, based on Darwin's theory of natural selection, the people with the success genes will be able to proliferate while the people without will just eventually die off.

If this is the case, then humans are living a life where their destiny is decided by their genes. You might argue that people are able to overcome their destinies by working harder. However, those people who work harder are those people with the "success" genes and therefore, we can say that being hardworking is also due to genes.

However, all of this is just hypothetical and no studies have proven this to be true(the individual tests for IQ and Personality are based on studies conducted).

The Different Perspectives on Personality (session 1)

I think that the social-cognitive approach and the trait approach, what most people call the nature and the nurturing which makes the most sense in today's society and from my own experience. In today's society where we have to compete with everyone else for everything, the social conditions imposed on us are so constricting that eventually, they start to shape out personality. In other words, the social conditions of today's society are such that we are forced to conform to them. In another time, say in the past when people are just starting to form communities, the social conditions were not set and people were freer to do whatever they like, so the social-cognitive approach may not apply then.

As for the trait approach, I feel that if they were both combined and used together to explain someone's personality and be used to predict what actions they would take in certain situations, it would be quite accurate as the trait approach covers the weaknesses of the social-cognitive approach.

My supposed personality

My personality type is INFP

INFPs feel internal turmoil when they find themselves in situations in which there is conflict between their inner code of ethics and their relationships with others. They feel caught between pleasing others and maintaining their own integrity. Their natural tendency to identify with others, compounded with their self-sacrificial dispositions, tends to leave them confused as to who they really are. Their quiet personalities further feeds their feelings of depersonalization. The INFP's quest for self-identity then seems even more alluring — but increasingly impossible to attain.

As with all NFs, the INFP will feel lost and perplexed at stressful times. As stress builds, INFPs become disconnected from their own personality and perceived place in life. They will lose sight of who they are in relation to time and place. They may not make basic observations, while instead they will focus on the more abstract and symbolic meanings of a particular interaction. This can sometimes baffle those who expect more direct communication and a fairly concrete relationship.

Careers

This lists represent careers and jobs people of your type tend to enjoy doing. The job requirements are similar to the personality tendencies of your personality type. It is important to remember that this is not a list of all the jobs possible. And it is very important to remember that people can, and frequently do, fill jobs that are dissimilar to their personality... this happens all the time...and sometimes works out quite well.

information-graphics...designer
college professor
researcher
legal mediator
social worker
holistic health...practitioner
occupational therapist
diversity manager
human resource...development specialist
employment development...specialist
minister/priest/rabbi
missionary
psychologist
writer: poet/novelist
journalist
editor/art director
organizational development...specialist