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Personality

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An individual’s characteristic patterns of

thought, emotion, and behaviour

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Traits

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Recurring trends in people’s responses to their environment

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Cultural Values

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Shared beliefs and desirable end states or modes of conduct in a given culture that influence the expression of traits

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Ability

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Relatively stable capabilities of people for performing a particular range of related activities

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What are the “Big Five” factors of personality?

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  • conscientiousness
  • agreeableness
  • neuroticism
  • openness to experience
  • extraversion
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Conscientiousness

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Dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being dependable, organized, reliable, ambitious, hard-working, and persevering

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Agreeableness

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Dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being kind, cooperative, sympathetic, helpful, courteous, and warm

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Neuroticism

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Dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being nervous, moody, emotional, insecure, jealous, and unstable

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Openness to experience

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Dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being curious, imaginative, creative, complex, refined, and sophisticated

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Extraversion

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Dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being talkative, sociable, passionate, assertive, bold, and dominant

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Big Five

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The 5 major dimensions of personality:

  • Conscientiousness
  • Agreeableness
  • Neuroticism
  • Openness to experience
  • Extraversion
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Accomplishment Striving

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A strong desire to accomplish task-related goals as a means of expressing one’s personality

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Communion striving

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A strong desire to obtain acceptance in personal relationships as a means of expressing one’s personality

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Zero acquaintance situations

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Situations in which 2 people have just met

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Status striving

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A strong desire to obtain power and influence within a social structure as a means of expressing one’s personality

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Positive Affectivity

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A dispositional tendency to experience pleasant, engaging moods such as enthusiasm, excitement, and elation

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Negative Affectivity

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A dispositional tendency to experience unpleasant moods such as hostility, nervousness and annoyance

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Locus of control

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One’s tendency to view the cause of events and personal outcomes as internally or externally controlled

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Culture

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The shared values, beliefs, motives, identities, and interpretations that result from common experiences of members of a society and are transmitted across generations

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Individualism-collectivism

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The degree to which a culture has a loosely knit social framework (individualism) or a tight social framework (collectivism)

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Power distance

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the degree to which a culture prefers equal power distribution (low power distance) or an unequal power distribution (high power distance)

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Uncertainty avoidance

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The degree to which a culture tolerates ambiguous situations (low uncertainty avoidance) or feels threatened by them (high uncertainty avoidance)

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Masculinity-femininity

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The degree to which a culture values stereotypically male traits (masculinity) or stereotypically female traits (femininity)

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Short Term vs Long Term Orientation

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Past + Present Oriented = Short Term

Future Oriented = Long Term

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Ethnocentrism
A propensity to view one's own cultural values as "right" and those of other cultures as "wrong"
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Types and Facets of Cognitive Ability
- verbal - quantitative - reasoning - spatial - perceptual
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Cognitive Ability
Capabilities related to the use of knowledge to make decisions and solve problems
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Verbal Ability
Various capabilities associated with understanding and expressing oral and written communication
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Quantitative Ability
Capabilities associated with doing basic mathematical operations and selecting and applying formulas to solve mathematical problems
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Reasoning Ability
A diverse set of abilities associated with sensing and solving problems using insight, rules, and logic
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Spatial Ability
Capabilities associated with visual and mental representation and manipulation of objects in space
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Perceptual Ability
The capacity to perceive, understand, and recall patterns of information
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General Cognitive Ability
The general level of cognitive ability that plays an important role in determining the more narrow cognitive abilities
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What are the various types of emotional ability?
- self-awareness - other awareness - emotion regulation - use of emotions
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Emotional Intelligence
A set of abilities related to the understanding and use of emotions that affect social functioning
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Self-Awareness
The ability to recognize and understand the emotions in oneself
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Other Awareness
The ability to recognize and understand the emotions that other people are feeling
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Emotion Regulation
The ability to recover quickly from emotional experiences
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Use of Emotions
The degree to which people can harness emotions and employ them to improve their chance of being successful in whatever they are seeking to do
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What are the various types of physical ability?
- strength - stamina - flexibility and coordination - psychomotor ability - sensory ability
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Strength
The degree to which the body is capable of exerting force
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Stamina
The ability of a person's lungs and circulatory system to work efficiently while he or she is engaging in prolonged physical activity
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Flexibility
The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach
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Coordination
The quality of physical movements in terms of synchronization of movements and balance
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Psychomotor ability
Capabilities associated with manipulating and controlling objects
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Sensory ability
Capabilities associated with vision and hearing
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Typical Performance
Performance in the routine conditions that surround daily job tasks
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Maximim Performance
Performance in brief special circumstances that demand a person's best effort
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Situational Strength
The degree to which situations have clear behavioural expectations, incentives, or instructions that make differences between individuals less important
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Trait Activation
The degree to which situations provide cues that trigger the expression of a given personality trait
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Wonderlic Personnel Test
A 12-minute test of general cognitive ability used to hire job applicants
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Hofstede's 5 Dimensions of Cultural Values
1) Individualism / Collectivism 2) Power Distance 3) Uncertainty avoidance 4) Masculinity / Femininity 5) Short Term vs Long Term Orientation

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