chapter 5

Question 1

Personality Traits are

Answer 1

components that describe particular tendencies a person has to feel, think,
and act in certain ways.

Question 2

Big Five Personality Traits

Answer 2

1. Extroversion vs Introversion
   
   2. Agreeableness
   3. Negative Affectivity (Neuroticism)
   4. Openness to Experience
   5. Conscientiousness

Question 3

Extraversion

Answer 3

outgoing, social, talkative, assertive, etc

Question 4

Agreeableness

Answer 4

Gets along well with others

Question 5

Negative Affectivity (Neuroticism

Answer 5

negative emotional state, chronic pessimist, distressed, always views themselves and others negatively.

Question 6

Openness to Experience

Answer 6

original, open to a wide variety of things, broad interests, and a risk taker

Question 7

Conscientiousness

Answer 7

organized, systematic, careful, thorough, responsible and self disciplined.

Question 8

Authoritarianism

Answer 8

belief that power and status differences are
appropriate within organizations

Question 9

Disciplinarian

Answer 9

individual that believes in discipline rules and regulations

Question 10

Machiavellianism

Answer 10

individual’s desire to gain power and control the behavior of others

Question 11

Hubris

Answer 11

overconfident pride and arrogance

Question 12

Narcissism

Answer 12

Having extreme love and appreciation for self while having very little or no empathy for others.

Question 13

Self-Monitoring

Answer 13

the extent to which people try to control the way they present themselves to others.

Question 14

Self-Esteem

Answer 14

Individual’s belief that he/she is worthy and deserving and has pride in self

Question 15

Self-Efficacy

Answer 15

individual’s belief about his/her capabilities to
perform a task

Question 16

Bulling Personality

Answer 16

Mistreats other employees

Question 17

the Myers-Briggs Framework

Answer 17

a popular questionnaire used to assess personality types

Question 18

A schema is a

Answer 18

mental concept that informs a person about what
to expect from a variety of experiences and situations.

Question 19

Selective Perception

Answer 19

the process by which individuals perceive what they want to in the information based on their particular frame of reference

Question 20

Confirmatory Bias

Answer 20

Suggest that once a perception is formed, the mind starts to resist alternative views.

Question 21

Ambiguous Information

Answer 21

Information whose meaning is not clear allowing it to be interpreted in multiple or conflicting ways.

Question 22

Prior Hypothesis Bias

Answer 22

Allowing strong prior beliefs about a relationship between variables to influence decisions based on these beliefs even when evidence shows they are wrong.

Question 23

Representativeness

Answer 23

The decision maker incorrectly generalizes a decision from a small sample or a single episode.

Question 24

Universal Perspective

Answer 24

the idea that if something isn’t right in one place or for one person, it is not right for anyone, anywhere.

Question 25

Relative Perspective

Answer 25

is the belief that there’s no absolute truth. Truth depends on a particular individual, culture, situation, time, etc.

Question 26

Rationality

Answer 26

the quality of being based on or in accordance
with reason or logic.

Question 27

“Perfect World ” Rationality

Answer 27

assumes that all facts about what is reasonable are known and agreed upon by all.

Question 28

Bounded Rationality

Answer 28

is based on what the individual knows,feels, values, and perceives to be true and rational.