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CBSEENPE12036794

Classify personality?

Solution

Personality can be classified in two ways:

  1. Physical basis (Sheldon)
  2. Mental basis

On a physical basis, personality further cateogrised into three types:

  1. Endomorphic - Fatty, round, cheerful, short height.
  2. Mesoporhic - Strong build up, tall, properly shaped body, cheerful
  3. Ectomorphic - Thin, long, depressed.

Mental basis: 

  1. Extrovert: High self-confidence, social-friendly, make more friend, confident, responsive, lively, leader.
  2. Introvert: Poor self-confidence, talkative, busy in own moody, unsocial pessimist, quiet, rigid.
  3. Ambivert: Moderate confidence level, makes few friends. It has the mix qualities of extrovert and introvert.