HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

PERSONALITY
COMPARE AND CONTRAST
CHARACTERISTICS OF
INTROVERTED AND
EXTROVERTED
PERSONALITIES IN THE
PRIMARY CLASSROOM
 PERSONALITY

INTROVERT EXTROVERT

• DEFINITIONS

• CHARTERISTICS

• TEACHERS’ ROLE
 WHAT IS PERSONALITY?
• Santrock (2008) – Personality refers to distinctive
thoughts, emotions, and behaviours that characterize
the way an individual adapts to the world.
• Jung (1934) – Personality is a supreme realization of
the innate idiosyncrasy of a living being.
• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (2004) –
Someone’s character, especially the way they behave
towards other people.
 Bioghraphy of Carl Gustav Jung

• Born on July 26, 1875, in the small Swiss village of

Kessewil.
• He went to boarding school in Basel, Switzerland.
• Although his first career choice was archaeology, he
went on to study medicine at the University of Basel.
• While working under the famous neurologist, Krafft-
Ebing, he settled on psychiatry as his career.
• He took a position at the Burghoeltzli Mental Hospital in
Zurich under Eugene Blueler, an expert on schizophrenia.
• He married Emma Rauschenbach in 1903.
• He died on June 6, 1961 in Zurich.
 “Introverts are people who prefer their internal world of
thoughts, feelings, fantasies, dreams, and so on, while
extroverts prefer the external world of things and people and
activities” (Jung, 1934 cited from Boeree, 2006)
 INTROVERT
Longman Dictionary Someone who thinks mainly about their own
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of Contemporary thoughts and personal life and does not enjoy

English (2004) spending time with other people.

Introversion is the tendency to focus one’s

New Age
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attention towards the inner, mental world

Spirituality (2006) rather than external, physical reality.

WordReference.co A person who tends to shrink from social

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m English contacts and to become preoccupied with

Dictionary (2010) their own thoughts
 EXTROVERT
Longman
Someone who is active and
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Dictionary of
confident, and who enjoys
Contemporary spending time with other people.
English (2004)

WordNe A person concerned more with

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practical realities than with

t (2010) inner thoughts and feelings.
 CHARACTERIS
TICS OF
INTROVERTED
CHILD
Thinks before Likes to
speaking be quiet

Excel at focusing Like to work

attention for long
independently or
periods of time in
situations if there are no with one or two
distractions other people

Prefer low Talk less and

level of reflect more
activity before acting

Enjoys Fewer
solitude friends
 CHARACTERISTIC
S OF
EXTROVERTED
Prefer bright
CHILD
colours and Talkative
excitement

Responds well to
Likes to work in
praise and
groups
competition

Excel during classes

Energized by
with high level of
interaction
activity

Expressive and
Has many friends
enthusiastic

High self
Easy to approach
confidence
ISSUE IN THE CLASSROOM SETTING
( PRAISE AND BLAME)

• Teachers use praise and blame daily as an

incentives to student to increase their work
output.
• G.G. Thompson and C.W Hunnicut (1944)
investigated the differential effects of
praise and blame on children classified as
extroverts and introverts.
 Thompson and Hunnicut
concluded that:
• Teachers’ praise will improve the work of the
introverts more than that of the extroverts.
• Blame will improve the work of the extroverts
more than that that of the introverts.
 TEACHERS’ ROLE

• Teachers should not use the same teaching

techniques on any pupils.
• Encourage pupils to participate actively in class
discussion by asking and answering questions.
• Teachers act as motivator and provides positive
approach to both introvert and extrovert pupils.
• Allowing the pupils to prepare questions at home by
assigning the material in advance for the next class
discussion.
INTROVERTS EXTROVERTS

Individual work Group work

Must ask the pupil directly to respond Provide them with high level activities

Reading and writing tasks Making complex models

Designing rotations so that all students Extroverts who recognize the intelligence
are asked to participate will make the of the introvert can encourage him to be
introvert more of a part of the class more active
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