Term Paper on "Interview Profile for Most of American Education"

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Music (musical intelligence) self-reflection (intrapersonal intelligence) physical experience (bodily-kinesthetic intelligence) social experience (interpersonal intelligence), and/or an experience in the natural world. (naturalist intelligence) interviewed a woman in my class who was 24 years old about her learning style. She says that she has always had problems with the lecture approach to learning, because she does not retain information through audible means. She learns best by reading. In fact, she brings her laptop to class and writes as the professor talks; then she learns by reading back the lectures. Because she is distracted by sounds, this woman likes to either study in a quiet library setting or in her dorm room, if no one else is around. My learning style is the opposite. I have trouble retaining what I read and do best when I am in a classroom setting and listen to the lecturer; that is why I stray away from most online courses that have a lot of reading rather than lectures.

The woman I interviewed took the Myers-Briggs personality indicator as part of her psychology class last semester. She sees herself as a somewhat shy and withdrawn individual, who likes spending time with her few close friends and not at parties or activities where there are a lot of people. She does not like the commotion and loud noises. The Myers-Briggs is an instrument for measuring a person's preferences that relies on four primary scales with opposite poles. These four scales are:

1) extraversion/introversion, (2) sensate/intuitive, (3) thinking/feeling, and 4) judging/perceiving. The various combinations of these preferences result in 16 different personality types, which are normally delineated by four letters -- for example, ENPJ (Extroversion, Intuition with Perceiver and Judging) -- to correspond to one's tendencies on the four scales.

When she took this test, the results were I, N, T and J. She agreed with the fact that she was more introverted than extraverted and more intuitive or abstract than concrete. She also sees herself as a thinker with her mental frame of mind stronger than her emotional. The J. For someone who is less carefree and organized also fits. She believes that much of this personality is innate; her mother says she was always a quiet and introspective child. When other kids were running around, she would be quietly spending time on an art project. However, she also believes that her personality is due to the way that she was raised; her father is an engineer and her mother is a teacher. Emphasis in their household was normally placed on discussions, and they spent a great deal of time reading together as a family. They rarely played or watched sports; outside activities were normally concerts and theater, for example.

How does she feel about her personality and the way that others see her? Is she pleased with who she is? Would she change her personality if possible? All these… READ MORE