BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie

Suppose a couple wants to buy a house. The husband may think of
the house in terms of its price, closeness to work, maintenance and so
forth, while his wife might consider the purchase in terms of how she
might feel when friends and relatives come over and how the house will
look during next year's Thanksgiving dinner.
Sensation and Intuition
Just as there are two equally valid ways to arrive at a judgment,
Jung saw that there were two ways of perception: sensation and intuition.
Sensation is easy to grasp. It means perception by means of our
various senses. It means contact with people and things by way of sight,
hearing, touch, taste and smell. Sensation is in touch with the here and
now in all its rich detail.
Intuition means the perception of possibilities. If sensation is
oriented to the present, intuition revels in the future.
When sensation is in a room, it glories in all the shades of color,
and the styles of decoration it finds there, while intuition immediately
looks for the nearest window in order to float out of it and search out
hidden possibilities in the future.
According to the direction of psychic energy Carl Jung elaborate
other typology. He divides human personality in introvert and extrovert. If
a person’s energy usually flows outwards, he or she is an extravert, while
if this energy normally flows inwards, this person is an introvert.
Extraverts feel an increase of perceived energy when interacting with a
large group of people, but a decrease of energy when left alone.
Conversely, introverts feel an increase of energy when alone, but a
decrease of energy when surrounded by a large group of people.In more
details Extraversion is "the act, state, or habit of being predominantly
concerned with and obtaining gratification from what is outside the self".
Extraverts tend to enjoy human interactions and to be enthusiastic,
talkative, assertive, and gregarious. They take pleasure in activities that
involve large social gatherings, such as parties, community activities,
public demonstrations, and business or political groups. Acting, teaching,
directing, managing, brokering are fields that favor extraversion. An
extraverted person is likely to enjoy time spent with people and find less
reward in time spent alone. They enjoy risk-taking and often show
leadership abilities.
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