Majors PTI
MajorsPTI™ Accreditation Assessment
General Questions
Attaining MajorsPTI Accreditation requires successful completion of assessments. This part is a series of short answer questions, completed by using the Accreditation Manual, Majors PTI Manual and course sessions. This assessment is not collaborative.
Q1. What are some core components of Jungʼs theory of psychological types?
Jung developed a theory of psychological types based on differences according to a person’s individual innate psychology rather that generalisation’s about behaviour.
Some of the core components of Jung’s theory are:
• Type preferences are influenced by the interaction between nature and nuture.
• Type is a preference that people are born with, providing a comfortable (healthy) place in which to view and interact with the world. Preferences can then be developed further through responding to and learning from experience. People learn, perceive and become stressed in different ways according to their type preference.
• The preference types are identified as sets of psychological opposites starting with Extraversion and Introversion (attitude) that influence the way in which people focus their attention, interact with the world around them and re-energise. Followed by two mental functions, Perception and Judgement (attending).Perception has two opposite in Sensation and Intuition, Judgment has Thinking and Feeling. Yung recognised that individuals are able to use other preferences as well, but where possible orientate themselves around one form of Perception (how information is gathered) and one form of Judgement (how decisions are made).
• These type preferences are seen as fundamental psychological principles that influence, and can assist in understanding, behaviour. Helping to understand why people can do the same thing but for very different reasons or behave differently given the same situation. Theory of self assists to understand how one “is” in the
General Questions
Attaining MajorsPTI Accreditation requires successful completion of assessments. This part is a series of short answer questions, completed by using the Accreditation Manual, Majors PTI Manual and course sessions. This assessment is not collaborative.
Q1. What are some core components of Jungʼs theory of psychological types?
Jung developed a theory of psychological types based on differences according to a person’s individual innate psychology rather that generalisation’s about behaviour.
Some of the core components of Jung’s theory are:
• Type preferences are influenced by the interaction between nature and nuture.
• Type is a preference that people are born with, providing a comfortable (healthy) place in which to view and interact with the world. Preferences can then be developed further through responding to and learning from experience. People learn, perceive and become stressed in different ways according to their type preference.
• The preference types are identified as sets of psychological opposites starting with Extraversion and Introversion (attitude) that influence the way in which people focus their attention, interact with the world around them and re-energise. Followed by two mental functions, Perception and Judgement (attending).Perception has two opposite in Sensation and Intuition, Judgment has Thinking and Feeling. Yung recognised that individuals are able to use other preferences as well, but where possible orientate themselves around one form of Perception (how information is gathered) and one form of Judgement (how decisions are made).
• These type preferences are seen as fundamental psychological principles that influence, and can assist in understanding, behaviour. Helping to understand why people can do the same thing but for very different reasons or behave differently given the same situation. Theory of self assists to understand how one “is” in the