Week 4 - Personality

When I took the Jung Typology test, my results show that I am a INFJ, which is also know as a counselor. When I read the description of the counselor, I actually believed that this test could be somewhat accurate. I did seem to fit me fairly well.



My EQ is supposedly 46. The test said this was extremely high, but I drastically doubt the validity of this test, it was a 20 question test that did not have major variation in either the type of questions or the mood of the questions. They were all positive and therefore promoted higher answers. This test seems a bit screwy.





I took the attractiveness test which said that I liked women which are more sexually alluring and those women that seem to not follow the norm. It also says that I dislike fun loving women. This test also came across to me as very inaccurate considering both that I know my standards and they don't match these, and the fact that this test used a single sense, vision, to determine all of this, but in reality we judge people through our interactions with them and all aspects of their personality. This test assumes we can all sum up who we like in a picture, which is assuming many false pretenses.


I took a test on relationships and it scored me as a 3.62 on attachment-related anxiety and a 1.33 on attachment related avoidance. This put me on the "Secure" part of the graph. This supposedly means that I will have longer and stronger relationships. This test actually seemed fairly thorough and legitimate.

Finally I took a test on how criminal I would act in stressful situations and it said I was average...whatever that means. It did not seem like a very reasonable test because it was user biased.

So, over all I feel these tests are biased by the test taker and in reality are difficult to really evaluate seriously. There is a test taking bias because we pick answers based on what we want to precieve ourselves as and not what we truely are. It makes every test very, very difficult to take in an unbiased way.

Week 3 Part 2 - Personality Disorders

Dear Dan,


I am having a great time in college. I am obviously great at it. I have passed all my classes, but for some reason my parents were not very appreciative of my hard work. I know if I continue on this path that I will own a major company in be extremely powerful. On that note, my girlfriend absolutely adores me, and we will obviously have a perfect marraige in my perfect life. I have been waiting for the head of the department to contact me soon in order for us to talk about my unique educational career. It is taking longer than I expected, but he will recognize that I am special sooner or later. I know you are having trouble back home, but I am much too busy to help you right now. Maybe I can be more useful when I become a powerful leader. Until that time good luck.


Your friend,

Bob

Week 3 Part 1 - Emotion Experiment

Pencil in my mouth without my lips touching.



Average Score of 5

Week 2 - Anxiety Disorders Case Study

Case Study 5: A 28-year-old woman is a rising junior executive in her investment company. Her increasing duties require her to make periodic formal presentations to the senior management of the company. However, she becomes intensely anxious at the thought of speaking in public. When she is forced to give a presentation she begins to feel anxious days in advance of the talk and the anxiety increases as the time for the talk approaches. She is concerned that her anxiety will become noticeable during the talk or that she will do something to embarrass herself.





2.) This patient is suffering from Social Phobia.





3.) She needs standard drugs in order to calm herself down and possibly group therapy.





4.) This woman gets scared about social situations where she risks embarrassing herself. She starts thinking about them weeks in advance and this will actually increase her chances of embarrassing herself at the time of the social situation. If she would take drugs to calm her nerves and decrease her fear of embarrassment then she would be fine.





5.) Case Study 1: unknown


Case Study 2: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder


Case Study 3: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder


Case Study 4: unknown


Case Study 6: Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia


Case Study 7: Panic Disorder without Agoraphobia


Case Study 8: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder


Case Study 9: A specific phobia of needles


Case Study 10: Acute Stress Disorder


Case Study 11: Generalized Anxiety Disorder