Personalities

Personalities
PYS/250
August 1, 2012
Cristy Clark

Personalities

The members of Team “A” all took a personality test based on the “Big 5” personality traits. A Google search led the members to a website called outofservice.com. This information was also used to formulate a plan as to work as a team with conflicting or similar personality traits.
Personality Traits
The percentile scores show where Anthony scored on the five personality dimensions relative to the comparison sample of other people who have taken this test on-line. In other words, his percentile scores indicate the percentage of people who score less than he did on each dimension. For example, Openness to Experience/Intellect reflects that Anthony prefers traditional and familiar experiences. In the Conscientiousness category, it reveals that he is very well organized, and can be relied upon. In the Extraversion percentile score it claims that Anthony tends to shy away from social situations; about 37 percent of the people in our comparison sample are less extraverted-- in other words, Anthony is rather introverted. With a 90 percentile score in the Agreeableness category describes him as a good-natured, courteous, and supportive person. Lastly, in the Neuroticism category identifies Anthony as a person that remains calm even in tense situation.
Personality Traits
According to the OCEAN model that was used in the Big Five the test results for Adam’s personality is not what he would have expected. Some of the things that he found out are the kind of personality that he has and that he already knew. So Adam was not too surprised to find out his own results. As to how they came up with this stuff from a group of people from Adams age group and so forth was somewhat interesting to him.
The O in stands for Openness to Experience/Intellect and my results to that was that Adam prefers traditional and familiar experiences; which is kind of true because of how he had been raised. Adam likes to...