A person’s personality is formed from the qualities that make someone different, special, and original. Some of the quizzes that can be taken to measure a person’s personality and how someone perceives the world are the Multiple Intelligence, Vark, and Myers-Briggs. Multiple Intelligence, Vark, and Myers-Briggs are quizzes that show how someone’s intelligence can differentiate from another person’s intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations (“Intelligence”).
Everyone agrees with the definition of intelligence, but some of society has different opinions on establishing an individual’s specific abilities. “… our schools and culture focus most of their attention on linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence” (Armstrong 1). In the television show The Simpsons, an example of poor intelligence is Homer Simpson, who is mentally disadvantaged that he once got both of his arms stuck in a vending machine. An example of good intelligence is Lisa Simpson; she is young child who at the age of eight years old exceeds the goals and accomplishments of someone much older than herself. The Multiple Intelligence test is an example of a standardized intelligence test. The Multiple Intelligence tests someone to see if they are linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, spatial, naturalist.
A Howard professor named Howard Gardner purposed the multiple intelligences theory which states that there are multiple types of human intelligence that each represent a different way of processing information. In my class, the highest common result is intrapersonal which is also my result for the Multiple Intelligence. My personality is ability to assess and recognize people that share the same characteristics. The Vark test is an example of standardized intelligence test. The Vark measures the visual, aural, reading, writing, and kinesthetic learning styles. The visual aspect is charts, graphs, flow charts, labelled diagrams, and all the symbolic arrows, circles, hierarchies and other devices, that people use to represent what could have been presented in words. The aural describes a preference for information that is “heard or spoken.” Learners who have this as their main preference report that they learn best from lectures, group discussion, radio, email, using mobile phones, speaking, web-chat and talking things through. Read and write is for information displayed as words.
This preference emphasizes text-based input and output – reading and writing in all its forms but especially manuals, reports, essays, and assignments. Kinesthetic is related to the use of experience and practice; the key is that people who prefer this mode are connected to reality. In my English class, the most popular result is Kinesthetic, although my personal result was Read/Write. In summary, the Vark test shows that everyone has different yet similar learning styles. The Myers-Briggs test is an example of standardized intelligence test. “Myers-Briggs is the measurement of psychological preference in how people perceive the world and their decisions” (Gregory). “The test consists of a series of questions, and your answers determine what type of personality you have and provides general assumptions about how your personality type is best suited for success in terms of careers, communication, etc.” (Gregory).
The highest common percentage in my class is a Campaigner which is someone with a description of enthusiastic, creative and sociable free spirits, who can always find a reason to smile, but my result is the Defender which is very dedicated and warm protectors, always ready to defend their loved ones. The Myers-Briggs helps a person discover the personality type that someone may not have known they acquire. The Myers-Briggs shows my true intelligence because I am exceptionally protective of the people whom I love. I am now aware that I learn best by reading and actively doing something. By learning this information, I know that I should try to learn things by reading instead of other learning styles because from what the quizzes show that works best for me such as writing down my notes and studying them later.
