Week 1 Ch 5,6,7,9,14

Question 1

Personality

Answer 1

The sum of ways in which individual reacts and interacts with others

Question 2

Heredity

Answer 2

Factors determined at conception; one’s biological, physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.

Question 3

Personality traits

Answer 3

Enduring characteristics that describe an individual’s behavior

Question 4

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Extraverted (E) verses Introverted (I)

Answer 5

Extraverted individuals are outgoing, sociable, and assertive. Introverts are quiet and shy

Question 6

Sensing (S) verses Intuitive (N)

Answer 6

Sensing types are practical and prefer routine and order, and they focus on details. Intuitive a rely on unconscious process and look at the big picture

Question 7

Thinking (T) verses Feeling (F)

Answer 7

Thinking types use reason and logic to handle problems. Feeling types rely on their personal values and emotions

Question 8

Judging (J) verses Perceiving (P)

Answer 8

Judging types want control and prefer order and structure. Perceiving types are flexible and spontaneous

Question 9

Big Five Model

Answer 9

A personality assessment model that describes five basic dimensions of personality

Conscientiousness, emotional stability, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness

Question 10

Conscientiousness

Answer 10

A personality dimension that describes someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized

Question 11

Emotional stability

Answer 11

A personality dimension that characterizes someone as a calm, self-confident, and secure (positive) verses nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative)

Question 12

Extraversion

Answer 12

A personality dimension describing someone who is sociable, gregarious, and assertive

Question 13

Openness to experience

Answer 13

A personality dimension that characterizes someone on terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity

Question 14

Agreeableness

Answer 14

A personality dimension that describes someone who is good natured, cooperative, and trusting

Question 15

OCB

Answer 15

Organizational citizenship behaviors

Question 16

CWB

Answer 16

Counterproductive work behaviors

Question 17

Dark triad

Answer 17

A constellation of negative personality traits consisting of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy

Question 18

Machiavellianism

Answer 18

The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means

Question 19

Narcissism

Answer 19

The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and possess a sense of entitlement

Question 20

Psychopathy

Answer 20

The tendency for lack of concern for others and a lack of guilt or remorse when actions cause harm

Question 21

Core self-evaluation (CSE)

Answer 21

Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person

Question 22

Self monitoring

Answer 22

A personality trait that measures an individuals ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors

Question 23

Proactive personality

Answer 23

People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs

Question 24

Situational strength theory

Answer 24

A theory indicating the way personality translates into behavior on the strength of the situation

Question 25

Trait activation theory (TAT)

Answer 25

A theory that predicts that some situations, events, or interventions “activate” a trait more than others

Question 26

Values

Answer 26

Basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable
To an opposite or converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence

Question 27

Value system

Answer 27

A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual’s value in terms of their intensity

Question 28

Terminal values

Answer 28

Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime

Question 29

Instrumental values

Answer 29

Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one’s terminal values

Question 30

Personality-job fit theory

Answer 30

A theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between personality type and occupational environment determines satisfaction and turnover

Question 31

Person-fit organization

Answer 31

A theory that people are attracted to and selected by organizations that match their values, and leave when there is no compatibility