Chapter 5 Progress Check

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.

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

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

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

Narcissim

Which of the following is 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 rating themselves better to create a good impression.

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

agreeableness

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

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

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

Milton Rokeach organized values into two categories: ________ values and ________ values.

instrumental; terminal

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

intensity

Which of the following differentiates introverts from extraverts?

none of the above

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

openess 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

_____ is the sum of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others.

personality

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

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 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) classification, introverted-intuitive-thinking-judging type of people are __

visionaries