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Lesson 10

Personality Types

An emotional person, contradistinguished from a

cognitive sort of person, tends to use emotion instead of
reason in dealing with things. To be emotional, however,

doesn’t always imply being unreasonable; in fact, being
emotional isn’t synonymous with being irrational or un

reasonable, as it just functions to describe one among
the many personality types. To illustrate, when faced with

the testimony of a person who claims to have been
abducted by aliens in a UFO, the cognitive person tends

to be analystic and skeptical while the emotional person tends to go by what

she feels, such as the apparent sincerity of the testifier as shown by her face or
her voice. The cognitive person oftentimes resorts to reason when faced with

challenges. While the emotional person is more likely to become teary eyed
and sensitive, the cognitive type keeps fiery or tender feeling bottled up in the

scientific and sterile laboratory of his brain.

Comprehension

1. What kinds of personality types are mentioned above?

2. According to the paragraph, what are the differences between an emotional
person and a cognitive person?
3. What does a cognitive person do when they face challenges?

Questions

1. What’s your personality like?
2. What are your strengths?
3. What are your weaknesses?
4. Which one do you prefer, an emotional person or a
cognitive person? Why?

Vocabulary & Expressions
cognitive : related to the process of knowing, understanding and learning something
synonymous with : a situation, quality, or idea that is the same or nearly the same as another
irrational : irrational behavior, feelings, etc. seem strange because they are not based on clear
thoughts or reasons
testimony : a formal statement that something is true, such as the one witness gives evidence in
a court of law
abduct : to take someone away by force (= kidnap)
fiery : containing or looking like fire
sterile : completely clean and not containing any bacteria

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