chapter 5 Flashcards
Personality Traits are
components that describe particular tendencies a person has to feel, think,
and act in certain ways.
Big Five Personality Traits
- Extroversion vs Introversion
- Agreeableness
- Negative Affectivity (Neuroticism)
- Openness to Experience
- Conscientiousness
Extraversion
outgoing, social, talkative, assertive, etc
Agreeableness
Gets along well with others
Negative Affectivity (Neuroticism
negative emotional state, chronic pessimist, distressed, always views themselves and others negatively.
Openness to Experience
original, open to a wide variety of things, broad interests, and a risk taker
Conscientiousness
organized, systematic, careful, thorough, responsible and self disciplined.
Authoritarianism
belief that power and status differences are
appropriate within organizations
Disciplinarian
individual that believes in discipline rules and regulations
Machiavellianism
individual’s desire to gain power and control the behavior of others
Hubris
overconfident pride and arrogance
Narcissism
Having extreme love and appreciation for self while having very little or no empathy for others.
Self-Monitoring
the extent to which people try to control the way they present themselves to others.
Self-Esteem
Individual’s belief that he/she is worthy and deserving and has pride in self
Self-Efficacy
individual’s belief about his/her capabilities to
perform a task
Bulling Personality
Mistreats other employees
the Myers-Briggs Framework
a popular questionnaire used to assess personality types
A schema is a
mental concept that informs a person about what
to expect from a variety of experiences and situations.
Selective Perception
the process by which individuals perceive what they want to in the information based on their particular frame of reference
Confirmatory Bias
Suggest that once a perception is formed, the mind starts to resist alternative views.
Ambiguous Information
Information whose meaning is not clear allowing it to be interpreted in multiple or conflicting ways.
Prior Hypothesis Bias
Allowing strong prior beliefs about a relationship between variables to influence decisions based on these beliefs even when evidence shows they are wrong.
Representativeness
The decision maker incorrectly generalizes a decision from a small sample or a single episode.
Universal Perspective
the idea that if something isn’t right in one place or for one person, it is not right for anyone, anywhere.
Relative Perspective
is the belief that there’s no absolute truth. Truth depends on a particular individual, culture, situation, time, etc.
Rationality
the quality of being based on or in accordance
with reason or logic.
“Perfect World ” Rationality
assumes that all facts about what is reasonable are known and agreed upon by all.
Bounded Rationality
is based on what the individual knows,feels, values, and perceives to be true and rational.
