Personality Flashcards
What is Personality?
A person’s general style of interacting with the world.
Doesn’t change over a lifetime.
People think they can evaluate personalities e.g. “Guess Steve’s personality”
Microsoft employees were asked to describe their CEO - 1000s of answers with >700 adjectives.
What is MBTI?
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Extrovert-Introvert Sensing-Intuitive Thinking-Feeling Judging-Percieving
Creates a dichotomy
Fails to predict outcomes
Not scientifically based
What is the 5 Factor model?
A measure of Personality.
Extraversion
Emotional Stability (calm, self-confident and secure)
Conscientiousness (Responsible, Persistent, Reliable)
Agreeableness
Openness
The first three correlate with income and generally they predict outcomes across cultures.
What determines Personality?
Heredity and Environmental Factors
NOT Aging
Heredity is most dominant.
Why might personality testing for job applicants not work? Other than social media, what other predictors of performance can be used?
Personality Faking - people lie or mis-remember their own actions. Personality feeds into Motivation and Ability, which are better predictors of performance. Previous academic record is a good measure of motivation.
Which elements of the 5 factor model predict income?
Conscientiousness, Extraversion and Emotional Stability correlate positively with income.
What job outcomes can Personality affect?
Job satisfaction
Job performance
Income
Workplace Wellbeing
Why shouldn’t companies use MBTI to measure applicants?
Applicants lie or mis-remember and consistently appear more extraverted, emotionally stable, conscientious and open. This is called personality faking.
MBTI is also not scientifically based and does not predict job performance.
How might Big Data be used to hire someone?
Facebook Profiles can be correlated with the big 5 personality traits. However, this can be unethical and doesn’t work for people who don’t have FB.
The MBTI indicators are E-I, S-I, T-F, J-P. What do these stand for?
Extrovert-Introvert
Sensing-Intuitive
Thinking-Feeling
Judging-Percieving
The MBTI indicators inclued Extrovert-Introvert, Sensing, Intuitive, and Judging-Percieving. What is missing?
Thinking -Feeling
What are the problems with the MBTI test?
It creates a false dichotomy, fails to predict outcomes, and is not scientifically based.
What is the opposite of ‘Sensing’ on the MBTI?
Intuitive.
What is the opposite of ‘Percieving’ on the MBTI?
Judging
What is the opposite of ‘Feeling’ on the MBTI?
Thinking
What is the missing pair from these MBTI indicators?
Sensing-Intuitive
Thinking-Feeling
Judging-Percieving
Extrovert-Introvert
Conscientiousness, Extraversion and ____ correlate positively with income
Emotional Stability
The Big 5 include extraversion, emotional stability and openness. What are the other 2?
Agreeableness, Conscientiousness
What is conscientiousness on the big 5?
Responsible, Persistent, Reliable. It correlates positively with income.
Does Openness correlate with income?
No. Extraversion, Conscientiousness, and Emotional Stability do.
Does Agreeableness correlate with income? What about leadership?
Agreeableness does not correlate strongly with income. If anything, it predicts a lower income. Agreeableness correlates negatively with leadership.
What is Emotional Stability on the big 5?
Calm, self-confident and secure. It correlates positively with income.
Big 5 is good because it predicts outcomes across different ____
Cultures.
What is the J-P of MBTI?
Judging-Percieving
MBTI includes extrovert-introvert, sensing-intuitive and __
Judging-Percieving
Thinking-Feeling
What Big 5 traits do people overexagerate when applying to a job?
extraverted, emotionally stable, conscientious and open
Other than personality faking, why might academic record be a better predictor of performance than personality tests?
Academic record predicts motivation and ability better than personality.
Sometimes people lie when completing personality tests. What is this called?
Personality Faking
Does Conscientiousness predict income?
Yes, along with Extraversion and Emotional Stability.
Does Openness to Experience predict income?
No. Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Emotional Stability do.
What is Thinking/Feeling on MBTI?
Logic/Emotion
What is Judging/Percieving on MBTI?
Control/Adaptability
What is Sensing Intuitive on MBTI?
Detail orientated/Bigger picture.
What are the flaws with an explicit control system?
Rules and Laws can never be complete and there will always be gaps.
How does culture supplement an explicit control system?
An explicit control system will have gaps in the rules. Culture provides an implicit control system that tells people how to behave when the rules don’t explicitly do so.
