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A 5 page paper discussing specific questions of whether personality is learned or is a condition of birth, as psychologist Carl Jung postulated early in the century. There are several areas in which behaviorists and Jungians view personality in similar fashion, but the one underlying difference between them ensures that they will remain separate. Whether personality is learned or is innate still has to be empirically proven, but anecdotal evidence is weighted in favor of those following Carl Jung's theories. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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psychology shies away from much of the debate over possible psychological types, for two primary reasons: typology systems make no attempt to either comment on or provide for mental
health issues, and the very process of categorization tends to be rather subjective. There have been no methods construed that would allow empirical testing or validation, and mainstream psychology
thrives on the empirical analysis. Noring (1993) states an example of the problems inherent with personality typing: "No true model of human
personality has yet been developed, and one can argue fairly convincingly that human personality is just too complex of an animal to ever be able to model perfectly. However,
the models that have been developed do seem to approximately and reasonably model human personality to an accuracy that makes them useful and predictive. This last point, admittedly, is
one of current debate by psychologists and non-psychologist alike (e.g., what is reasonable accuracy?)" (p. ideaoftypes). One enduring division that persists is that
between the behaviorists and the Jungians, however. Behaviorists are certain that all personality is learned, that humans essentially are born as "blank slates" upon which life writes; the Jungians
follow the philosophy of Carl Jung, who postulated early in the century that personality is innate and that no amount of change initiative can alter the basic pattern through which
we approach life (Doherty, 1999; Anonymous, 1999). Of the two schools, B.F. Skinner was a noted behaviorist. "In 1943, Isabel Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs, produced the first
set of questions designed to test a normal persons Jungian psychological preferences. It was the first Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and after years of refinement, has become the most widely
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