Ch.5 - Personality & Values

Question 1

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI):

Extraverted vs Introverted

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI):

Sensing vs Intuitive

Answer 2

Sensing types are practical and prefer routine and order. They focus on details. Intuitive rely on unconscious processes and look at the “big picture”.

Question 3

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI):

Thinking vs Feeling

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI):

Judging vs Perceiving

Answer 4

Judging types want control and prefer their world to be ordered and structured. Perceiving types are flexible and spontaneous.

Question 5

heredity characteristics

Answer 5

one’s biological, physiological, and inherent psychological makeup. Heredity seems to be more important then environment.

Question 6

Environmental characteristics

Answer 6

factors seems to be less determinant in personality traits but has a factor in the traits.

Question 7

The most common means of measuring personality is through ___________.

Answer 7

self-report surveys

Question 8

The Big Five Model:

Extraversion:

Answer 8

coinable, gregarious, and assertive. (Higher performance and enhanced leadership roles)

Question 9

The Big Five Model:

Agreeableness:

Answer 9

good nature, cooperative, and trusting. (lower levels of deviant behavior, more compliant and conforming)

Question 10

The Big Five Model:

Conscientiousness:

Answer 10

responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized. (Highest job performance and work success)

Question 11

The Big Five Model:

Emotional stability:

Answer 11

calm, self-confident, secure and positive. (Highest job satisfaction)

Question 12

The Big Five Model:

Openness to experience:

Answer 12

imagination sensitivity, and curiosity. (Training performance, more adaptable to change)

Question 13

Narcissism:

Answer 13

arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, sense of entitlement.

Question 14

Self-monitoring:

Answer 14

traits measured ability to adjust behavior to external, situational factors.

Question 15

Core Self-Evaluation:

Answer 15

like themselves and see themselves as effective, capable, and in control of their environment.

Question 16

Values:

Answer 16

represent 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 17

Terminal values

Answer 17

are end-states. the goals a person would like to achieve during the lifetime.

Question 18

Instrumental values

Answer 18

are modes of behavior. Ways to achieve the terminal values.