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41) ________ refers to bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person.

A) Core self-evaluation

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

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

12) The ________ is a personality assessment consisting of 100-questions where respondents are classified as extraverted-introverted, sensing-intuitive, thinking-feeling, and judging-perceiving.

A) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

56) Which of the following is most likely to be true regarding people with a high level of other-orientation?

A) They feel obligated to help people who have helped them.

32) Which of the following dimensions of the Big Five Model indicates a person's ability to withstand stress?

A) emotional stability

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

A) instrumental; terminal

7) In ________, a co-worker or another observer does an independent assessment of personality, with or without the subject's knowledge.

A) observer-ratings surveys

49) Individuals low in self-monitoring ________.

A) tend to display their true dispositions and attitudes in every situation

11) Which of the following does the heredity approach state?

B) An individual's personality is determined by molecular structure of the genes.

27) The ________ is a 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.

B) Big Five Model

26) What is the major problem with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as a measure of personality?

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

72) With reference to John Holland's personality-job fit theory, people belonging to the investigating type prefer ________.

B) activities that involve thinking, organizing, and understanding

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

B) heredity

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

B) self-report surveys

2) Who defined personality as the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment?

C) Gordon Allport

47) Which of the following is true of a narcissist?

C) They are more likely to emerge as leaders.

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

C) They do not adapt well to changing contexts.

67) Which of the following is true of the baby boomer generation?

C) They give high importance to achievement and material success.

61) Which of the following is true of values ?

C) They have content and intensity attributes.

73) With reference to the Hofstede's framework, a class or caste system that discourages upward mobility is more likely to exist in a nation that scores ________.

C) high on power distance

33) According to the Big Five Model, the ________ dimension addresses a range of interests and fascination with novelty.

C) openness to experience

35) ________ is as important for managers as for front-line employees and, among all Big Five Model traits, is most consistently related to job performance.

Conscientiousness

10) Which of the following statements is true about personality?

D) Personality is influenced by hereditary factors.

55) Which of the following statements is most likely to be true regarding people with proactive personalities?

D) They are more likely than others to be seen as leaders.

50) As compared to high self-monitors, low self-monitors ________.

D) are less likely to emerge as leaders

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

D) emotional stability

48) Individuals scoring ________ have a strong ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors and can behave differently in different situations.

D) high on self-monitoring

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

D) responsible, organized, and dependable

76) According to Hofstede's framework, ________ indicates the degree to which people in a country prefer structured to unstructured situations.

D) uncertainty avoidance

39) Which of the following differentiates introverts from extraverts?

E) Introverts are less impulsive than extraverts.

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

E) It may result in the respondent lying to create a good impression.

31) According to the Big Five Model, a person who scores ________ is easily distracted, disorganized, and unreliable.

E) low on conscientiousness

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

Narcissism

3) ________ is the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others.

Personality

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

agreeableness

75) 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

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

conscientiousness

71) With reference to John Holland's personality-job fit theory, people belonging to the ________ type prefer verbal activities in which there are opportunities to influence others and attain powers.

enterprising

40) 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

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

instrumental

60) When we rank an individual's values in order of their ________, we obtain the person's value system.

intensity

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

investigative

43) Which of the following personality traits indicates the degree to which a person is unemotional and pragmatic and believes that ends can justify means?

machiavellianism

69) With reference to John Holland's personality-job fit theory, people belonging to the realistic type will be most suitable for the job of a(n) ________.

mechanic

1) According to Gordon Allport, ________ is defined as the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment.

personality

54) Those with a ________ personality identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs, compared to others who passively react to situations.

proactive

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

terminal

59) 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