The hereditary approach states what? ✔✔An individual's personality is determined by molecular
structure of genes.
hereditary ✔✔determined at
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ✔✔Most widely used personality test that includes Extroverted (E)
versus Introverted (I), Sensing (S) versus Intuitive (N), Thinking (T) versus Feeling (F), Judging
(J) versus Perceiving (P
What is the major problem with the Myers-Briggs personality test? ✔✔It forces a person to be
categorized as either one type or another.
Big 5 Personality Traits ✔✔Openness, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extroversion,
Emotional stability.
Among all Big 5 personality traits, which one is most consistently related to job performance?
✔✔conscientiousness
narcissism ✔✔The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require
excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
Individuals scoring ________ have a strong ability to adjust their behavior to external, situational
factors and can behave differently in different situations. ✔✔high on self-monitoring
People with proactive personalities do what? ✔✔They are more likely than others to be seen as
leaders.
What is true of values? ✔✔They have content and intensity attributes.
What is an instrumental value? ✔✔A method of behaviors that get you to the end result like
personal discipline.
What is a terminal value? ✔✔Where you are trying to end up such as social recognition.
What are John Holland's six personality types? ✔✔realistic, investigative, artistic, social,
enterprising, conventional. (remember investigative)
With reference to Hofstede's framework, which country scores the highest in individualism?
✔✔United States
What is perception? ✔✔A process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory
impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
What are the three factors that influence perception? ✔✔Situation, perceiver, target
attributional theory ✔✔when we observe someone's behavior, we attempt to determine whether it
was caused by internal or external factors.
what is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic? ✔✔Intrinsic is inside you (fits the pattern)
and extrinsic is outside you (breaks the pattern).
dispositional attribution ✔✔attributing behavior to the person's disposition and traits (internal)
situational attribution ✔✔attributing a behavior to some external cause or factor operating within
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