PERSONALITY ✔✔a complex set of characteristics that makes you unique
HEREDITY ✔✔factors determined at conception
MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR ✔�
... [Show More] ��the most widely used personality assessment in the
world. includes scales on introversion/extroversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, and
judging/perceiving
THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY MODEL ✔✔personality typing instrument which includes
extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness to experience
Machiavellianism ✔✔the degree to which an individual's pragmatic, maintains emotional distance,
and believes the end justifies the means
NARCISSM ✔✔the tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require
excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement
SELF-MONITORING ✔✔A personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust his or
her behavior to external, situational factors.
PROACTIVE PERSONALITY ✔✔people identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and
persevere until meaningful change occurs.
VALUES ✔✔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
TERMINAL VALUES ✔✔desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to
achieve during his or her lifetime
INSTRUMENTAL VALUES ✔✔preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's
terminal values
POWER DISTANCE ✔✔a national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society
accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally
PERCEPTION ✔✔a process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions
in order to give meaning to their environment
ATTRIBUTION THEORY ✔✔an attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is
internally or externally caused
FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR ✔✔the tendency to underestimate the influence of
external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about
the behavior of others
SELF-SERVING BIAS ✔✔the tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal
factors and put the blame for failures on external factors
SELECTIVE PERCEPTION ✔✔the tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis
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