Chapter 5

What is Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?

The most widely used personality frameworks test

Which of the following is most likely to be a drawback of highly conscientious people according to the Big Five Model?

They do not adapt well to changing contexts

Which dimension of the Big Five Model refers to an individual's propensity to defer to others?

Agreeableness

Which of the following does the heredity approach state?

An individual's personality is determined by molecular structure in the genes

The ______ personality assessment model that taps basic dimensions which encompass most of the significant variation in human personality, namely extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience

Big Five Model

Among the Big Five model traits, ________ is most strongly related to life satisfaction, job satisfaction, and low stress levels.

Emotional Stability

Which of the following dimensions of the Big Five model indicated a person's ability to withstand stress?

Emotional stability

People scoring high on the ________ dimension of the Big Five Model are more likely to be absent from work and engage in risky behavior than those who score low

Extraversion

Briefly describe the five key traits in the Big Five Model

Extraverstion- extraverts are gregarious, assertive, and sociable Agreeableness- Measures the degree to relate to others Conscientiousness- Measure of reliability Emotional Stability- Measures the ability to withstand pressure Openness to experience- Measure the degree of interest and fascination of novelty

Ellen Athers works as a communication executive at a travel house. She is known to be friendly with her colleagues and interacts with them regularly to build strong work relationships. She knows that her rapport with her co-workers is a crucial part of her work and invests time in these relationships. In addition, she is assertive in making decisions, and colleagues take her decisions seriously. Which of the following types is Athers most likely to be characterized as according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) classification?

Extraverted

What the MBTI classification of E or I stand for?

Extraverted/Introverted

Amber Downing, a human resource executive, is in charge of the recruitment process in her organization. During the hiring process, she often needs to coordinate with prospective employees. The organizational process does not require her to inform employees who do not get through the selection process. However she believes that it is rude not to give them an update. She thus makes sure that she sends them e-mails informing them about the selection process. Which of the following types is Downing characterized as according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) classification?

Feeling

Who defined personality as the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine a person's unique adjustments to his/her environment?

Gordon Allport

Which of the following terms refers to factors such as one's biological, physiological, and inherent makeup determined at conception?

Heredity

With reference to the Big Five Model, which of the following is a difference between highly agreeable and less agreeable people?

Highly agreeable people tend to do better in interpersonally oriented jobs than less agreeable people

According to the MBTI classification, people with ENTP personality type are most likely to be

Innovative

According to the Rokeach Value Survey, ________ values refer to preferable modes of behavior

Instrumental

Milton Rokeach created the Rokeach Value Survey (RVS), which consists of two sets of values, namely ________ values and ________ values.

Instrumental;terminal

When we rank an individual's values in order of their ____, we obtain the person's value system

Intensity

Elaine Chamberlain works as a research executive at an environmental organization. Though her colleagues are helpful and friendly, because of her shy nature, she often eats her lunch at her desk and has limited interactions with them. She is glad that her nature of work does not require her to interact with her co-workers to a high extent. Which of the following types is Chamberlain most likely to be characterized as according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) classification?

Introverted

John Holland's personality-job fit theory presents six personality types. Which of the following is one of these six types?

Investigative

What is the major problem with the MBTI as a measure of personality?

It forces a person to be categorized as either one type or another

Which of the following personality traits indicated the degree to which a personal is unemotional and pragmatic and believes that ends can justify means?

Machiavellianism

The _______ is a personality assessment consisting of 100 questions where respondents are classified as extraverted or introverted, sensing or intuitive, thinking or feeling, and judging or percieving

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

___ refers to the tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement

Narcissism

Tracy Winter works at a publishing firm in London and recently received an e-mail from the human resource department of her company asking her to study the behavior of a colleague, Cindy Camp, including her attention toward her work, without Camp's knowledge. Winter now needs to scrutinize Camp's behavior and notice if she is free from distractions and pays sufficient attention to her tasks. Which of the following is Winter conducting?

Observer-ratings survey

In ___________, a coworker or another observer does an independent assessment of personality, with or without the subject's knowledge

Observer-ratings surveys

According to the Big Five Model, the _____ dimension addresses a range of interests and fascination with novelty

Openness to experience

Marina Lyon works as a reservation executive at a travel and tourism company. Though her job requires her only to efficiently book flight tickets for customers, she has also opted to undergo training to learn the process of hotel reservations. In addition, every evening she reads travelogues to be aware of upcoming travel destinations and trends. She loves the industry she works in and is eager to learn as much as she can. Considering the information given in this case, which dimension of the Big Five model best describes Lyon's personality?

Openness to experience

Which of the following instrumental value according to the RVS?

Personal discipline

Esther Lugo has gone for an interview at an advertising firm in Manhattan and has been asked to complete a self-report survey to help interviewers understand if she is the right candidate for the job. From the interview, they have found that she is extroverted, empathic, scrupulous, and cooperative in nature, which are key characteristics needed for the job. These characteristics about Lugo indicate her ________.

Personality

_________ is the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others

Personality

Which of the following statements is true about personality?

Personality is influenced by hereditary factors

Discuss John Holland's personality-job fit theory.

6 personality types: Job satisfaction and the intention to leave a position and determined by how well the individual matches his personality to a job. Personalities are investigative, realistic, conventional, enterprising, social, and artistic

With reference to the Hofstede's Framework for Assessing Cultures, ________ emphasizes a tight social framework in which people expect others in groups of which they are a part to look after them and protect them

Collectivism

Which dimension of the Big Five model is a measure of reliability?

Conscientiousness

According to the Big Five Model, a highly conscientious person is most likely to be ________.

Responsible, organized, and dependable

Which of the following is the most common means of measuring personality?

Self-report surveys

According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) classification, people belonging to the _____ type are practical and prefer routine and order and focus on details

Sensing

What does the MBTI classification of S or N stand for?

Sensing/Intuitive

Help Aid, a non-profit organization in Indonesia, works at providing education in underdeveloped countries. They are now looking to hire a teacher who can educate children in Namibia and prepare them for jobs which will enable them to sustain themselves. According to Holland's personality-job fit theory, people belonging to which of the following personality types will best suit Help Aid's requirement?

Social

According to the Rokeach Value Survey, ________ values refer to desirable end-states.

Terminal

Discuss terminal values and instrumental values as identified by the Rokeach Value Survey

Terminal value- The desired end state- example: a comfortable life Instrument value- The preferable modes of behavior, or means to achieve the terminal values example: hardworking, ambitious

Which of the following is true regarding the baby boomer generation?

They give high importance to achievement and material success

Which of the following are true regarding values?

They have content and intensity attributes

Which of the following is a drawback of self-report surveys?

They may result in the respondent lying to create a good impression

Valerie Sinclair, a climate campaigner at an environmental organization, invariably uses rationale to make decisions for project implementation. She believes that the right decisions can be made only through scrutiny and analysis. Each time she needs to make a decision, she weighs all options before taking action. Which of the following is a characteristic of Sinclair's personality type according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) classification?

Thinking

Which of the following terms describes basic convictions that "a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite mode of conduct"?

Values

According to the MBTI classification, introverted-intuitive-thinking-judging type of people are

visionaries