Week 2 - L2 - Managing Individuals

Question 1

Which era deals with humans?
A. traditional
B. post-bureaucratic
C. bureaucratic

Answer 1

B. post-bureaucratic

Question 2

Which personality theory is incorrect?
A. Psychoanalytic Theory
B. Trait Theory
C. Biological Theory
D. Socio-Cognitive Theory

Answer 2

C. Biological Theory

Question 3

List the 4 main theories of personality:

Answer 3

o Trait Theory
o Psychoanalytic Theory
o Socio-Cognitive Theory
o Humanist Theory

Question 4

Mix of biological, psychological and societal influences that characterise a person’s thoughts and actions throughout their lives

A. Trait Theory
B. Psychoanalytic Theory
C. Socio-Cognitive Theory
D. Humanist Theory

Answer 4

A. Trait Theory

Question 5

Reciprocal determinism: personality is a product of
o	Our behaviour
o	Our thoughts
o	Our feelings
o	In interaction with our environment

A. Trait Theory
B. Psychoanalytic Theory
C. Socio-Cognitive Theory
D. Humanist Theory

Answer 5

C. Socio-Cognitive Theory

Question 6

Aim to fully realise personal growth and potential

A. Trait Theory
B. Psychoanalytic Theory
C. Socio-Cognitive Theory
D. Humanist Theory

Answer 6

D. Humanist Theory

Question 7

List Sigmund Freud’s 3 personality traits:

Answer 7

Sigmund Freud: ID, superego, ego

Question 8

Which theory does Sigmund Freud’s 3 personality traits fall under?

A. Trait Theory
B. Psychoanalytic Theory
C. Socio-Cognitive Theory
D. Humanist Theory

Answer 8

D. Humanist Theory

Question 9

What is the process of receiving, processing and storing stimuli to understand and make sense of our world?
A. Filtering
B. Psychoanalytic Theory
C. Perception
D. Ego

Answer 9

C. Perception

Question 10

What is the 4 step process order for Perception?
A. attention, filtering, organisation and interpretation
B. attention, filtering, interpretation, organisation
C. attention, interpretation, filtering, organisation
D. filtering, organisation and interpretation, attention

Answer 10

A. attention, filtering, organisation and interpretation

Question 11

What is the ability to focus on a specific stimulus while filtering out other stimuli:

Answer 11

Filtering: The Cocktail Party Effect

Question 12

Short cuts to interpret the stimulus:
A. filtering
B. schemas
C. perception
D. Humanist Theory

Answer 12

B. schemas

Question 13

List the 5 types of schemas:

Answer 13

• Person schemas
• Self-schemas
• Social schemas
• Script schemas
• Role schemas

Question 14

'Self conceptions we hold about ourselves' relates to:
A. Person schemas
B. Script schemas
C. Social schemas
D. Role schemas
E. Self-schemas

Answer 14

E. Self-schemas

Question 15

'Appropriate and inappropriate behaviour in specific contexts' relates to:
A. Person schemas
B. Script schemas
C. Social schemas
D. Role schemas
E. Self-schemas

Answer 15

D. Role schemas

Question 16

'How we operate upon our world and understand and remember information' relates to:
A. Person schemas
B. Script schemas
C. Social schemas
D. Role schemas
E. Self-schemas

Answer 16

B. Script schemas

Question 17

'Our social knowledge about public affairs, laws, politics, media art and anything socially important' relates to:
A. Person schemas
B. Role schemas
C. Social schemas
D. Script schemas
E. Self-schemas

Answer 17

C. Social schemas

Question 18

'The structures of meaning that affect thinking, planning and behaviour concerning others' relates to:
A. Role schemas
B. Script schemas
C. Social schemas
D. Person schemas
E. Self-schemas

Answer 18

D. Person schemas

Question 19

List the 4 common errors in perception:

Answer 19

• Stereotyping
• Halo/Devil effect
• Self-fulfilling prophecy
• Attribution theory

Question 20

What is the halo/devil effect?
A. Ascribing positive/negative interpretations of people based upon one trait in one situation
B. Grouping objects into simplistic categories based upon generalised perception
C. A belief or expectation comes true because people act as if it were true

Answer 20

A. Ascribing positive/negative interpretations of people based upon one trait in one situation

Question 21

What is the pygmalion effect?
A. Greater expectation = better performance
B. How people attribute cause to their own and other people’s behaviours
C. Individual or group values

Answer 21

A. Greater expectation = better performance

Question 22

What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
A. Desirable goals
B. How people attribute cause to their own and other people’s behaviours
C. The order of values in terms of importance
D. A belief or expectation comes true because people act as if it were true

Answer 22

D. A belief or expectation comes true because people act as if it were true

Question 23

‘The study of the psychological bases for leading the best life possible’ relates to:
A. Desirable goals
B. Positive Psychology
C. Emotional intelligence

Answer 23

B. Positive Psychology

Question 24

‘The ability, capacity, skill, or self-perceived ability to identify, assess, and manage the emotions of one’s self, or others, and of groups’ relates to:
A. Desirable goals
B. Positive Psychology
C. Emotional intelligence

Answer 24

C. Emotional intelligence

Question 25

Emotional intelligence is also known as:

Answer 25

social intelligence

Question 26

What is the happiness formula?
A. 50% what you do, 40% genetics, 10% circumstances
B. 40% what you do, 50% genetics, 10% circumstances
C. 10% what you do, 50% genetics, 40% circumstances
C. 50% what you do, 10% genetics, 40% circumstances

Answer 26

B. 40% what you do, 50% genetics, 10% circumstances