Lesson 4

Question 1

Personality Traits

Answer 1

Enduring characteristics that describe an individual’s behaviour

Question 2

Personality types

Answer 2

Psychological classification of different types of individual

Question 3

MBTI

Answer 3

Meyer Briggs Type Indicator. (1962)

A personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies people into 1 of 16 personality types

Question 4

Openness to change

Answer 4

Personality dimension that characterizes someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity and curiosity

Question 5

Conscientiousness

Answer 5

Personality dimension that describe someone who is sociable, gregarious, and assertive

Question 6

Agreeableness

Answer 6

Personality dimension that describe someone who is good natured, cooperative and trusting

Question 7

Emotional reaction

Answer 7

Personality dimension that describes someone as nervous, insecure and easily emotional vs calm, self-confident and secure

Question 8

Lexical Hypothesis

Answer 8

Hyposthesis that the individual differences that are most salient nad socially relevant in people’s lives become enconded into their language