Using the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) theory to describe schemas makes it a bit easier to understand schemas and how personality comes about by behaviour that is really deeply embedded in habit. There are several tests for IQ, which I will not go into, other than to say that they measure success at predicting academic skills, but Conventional IQ tests do not do a great job at predicting work place success. IQ has several Sub-tests which are listed below:
- Verbal skills
- Mathematical skills
- Spatial Skills
- Bodily-kinesthetic skills
- Musical skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Intrapersonal skills
- Naturalist Skills
So when we use the same theory that IQ is made of several Sub Components, Personality I feel works in the same way. We have a vast amount of individual schemata that make up personality... being scripts of behaviour for what to do in what situation. This Diagram 1 shows the parallels the dimensions between IQ and personality ... As I see it. Though this is seen as untestable, though the concept of EQ (Emotional Quotient) does a good job at measuring Interpersonal and Intrapersonal skills, to predict work place success.
By using this model to visualize schemas and how the personality is formed by all of our experiential learning, we can understand that personality is neither unchangeable nor static in time. As schemas slowly change over time or suddenly with an impacting moment, personality then changes in that realm where the schema affects the situational response script in our personality.
These schemas affect our:
- Motivations
- How we interpret facial expressions
- Relationship styles
- Customer relations
- Power demonstrations (ie. obtaining obedience in others)
- Self Control
- Self speak
- Self image
- Self worth
- How we want other to perceive our self
- Etc......
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