Chapters 3 & 4 Quiz

_____ reflects a strong desire to obtain power and influence within a social structure as a means of expressing personality.

**Status striving Accomplishment striving Fellowship striving Communion striving Attainment striving

Miriam is known as a person who is talkative. In the context of the Big Five taxonomy, the personality dimension extraversion best describes Miriam.

**True False

Personality refers to the structures and propensities inside people that explain their characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior.

**True False

Jason is married with two children and lives in New York. He has worked at Bubble Zone for 10 years. These are all __________ of the four layers of diversity.

**external dimensions affirmations organizational dimensions internal dimensions personality

Agreeable people prioritize _____.

Accomplishment striving Status striving Attainment striving **Communion striving Power striving

__________ is based on a simple premise. Rightly or wrongly, people infer causes for their own and others' behavior.

Context of interaction Stereotyping Implicit cognition **Attribution theory Person perception

_____ refer(s) to the structures and propensities inside a person that explain his or her characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior.

Ethnocentrism **Personality Attributions Perception Cultural Values

Neurotic people tend to:

Exhibit enthusiastic and upbeat mood patterns **Hold an external locus of control Strive for status Be extroverts Be communion strivers

__________ characteristics are quickly apparent to interactants.

External **Surface-level Internal Attributional Deep-level

__________ are suspected or inferred causes of behavior.

Implicit cognitions **Causal attributions Semantic memories Stereotypes Selectivity biases

Which of the following is not one of the recommendations to managers about reducing stereotypes?

Managers should educate people about stereotypes. Managers should create opportunities for diverse employees to work together, Managers should provide opportunities for employees to get accurate data about the characteristics of other groups of people. Managers should encourage all employees to strive to increase their awareness of stereotypes. ***Managers should actively ignore stereotypes

__________ is an artificial intervention aimed at giving management a chance to correct an imbalance, injustice, mistake, or outright discrimination that occurred in the past.

Managing diversity **Affirmative action Discrimination rectification The glass ceiling A legitimacy program

These Myers-Briggs dichotomies focuses on how one takes in and presents information.

Thinking vs. feeling Extroversion vs. Introversion Love vs. hate Judging vs. perceiving **Sensing vs. Intuition

In the context of the Big Five taxonomy, a submissive person is said to be an extravert.

True **False

The term __________ identifies an invisible but absolute barrier that prevents women from advancing to higher-level positions.

affirmative action **glass ceiling diversity management causal attribution self-serving bias

Which of the following is not a dimension of the Big Five taxonomy?

Conscientiousness Neuroticism **Locus of control Openness to experience Extraversion

Which of these dimensions in the Big Five taxonomy is associated with the trait adjectives kind, cooperative, sympathetic, and warm?

Conscientiousness Openness Extraversion **Agreeableness Neuroticism

George is described by his friends as curious and imaginative. He is probably high on the trait of ________.

Extraversion Conscientiousness Introversion Neuroticism **Openness to experience

These two Myers-Briggs dichotomies are determined by the value placed on people vs. processes.

Extroversion vs. Introversion **Feeling vs. thinking Judging vs. perceiving Neuroticism vs. agreeableness Sensing vs. intuition

_____, who are more energetic and outgoing, are perceived to be more "leader-like."

Hysterical individuals Emotionally adjusted people Agreeable people Neurotics **Extraverts

"Approaching tasks by planning and setting goals" describes the _____ type of Myers-Briggs indicator.

Perceiving Feeling **Judging Introversion Extraversion

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator evaluates individuals on the basis of all of these types of preferences except:

Perceiving vs. judging **Short-term vs. long-term orientation Thinking vs. feeling Sensing vs. intuition Extroversion vs. introversion

Conscientious people prioritize:

Power Striving Curiosity Status Striving Communion Striving **Accomplishment striving

Which of the following are the strongest determinants of one's abilities?

Values and attitudes Training and skills **Genes and the environment Knowledge and beliefs Experience and attitude

Surface-level characteristics include __________, age, and race.

attitudes opinions seniority values **gender

Which of the following is not one of the key perceiver characteristics that affect our perceptions of others

experience with target. direction of glaze. **nonverbal cues. category-based knowledge. needs and goals.

Julie notices immediately that one of the members assigned to her team in a marketing class is a middle-aged man. This is a(n) __________ characteristic.

external attributional **surface-level deep-level internal

The fundamental attribution bias says that we tend to overattribute others' behaviors to __________ factors.

external self-serving environmental situational **personal

At its most basic, a person's behavior can be attributed to either __________ or __________ factor.

implicit; explicit effort; ability **internal; external success; failure motivated; accidental

Deep-level characteristics of diversity

include our ethnicity. are the most stable. **include attitudes, opinion, and values. are unchangeable. are not under our control.

External factors include all of the following except:

ineffective co-workers. an unsympathetic boss. **putting forth effort. a difficult task. bad luck.

We build stereotypes through a four-step process. Which of the following is not part of the process?

maintenance expectations **appraisal inferences categorization

Which of the following is not a layer of diversity?

organizational personality external internal **attributional

Harold Kelley hypothesized that people make causal attributions by observing three dimensions of behavior.

**consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency. consistency, recognition, and context. distinctiveness, retrieval, and consensus. context, consistency, and simplification. consensus, storage, and retention.

If John views a situation as having low consensus, low distinctiveness, and high consistency, he is likely to make an attribution of

**internal causes. self-serving bias. fundamental bias. person perception. external causes.

Alana looks at the clouds and sees flowers. Her brother, Sammy, looks at the same clouds and sees jellyfish. Alana and Sammy have different

**perceptions. attributions. attitudes. stereotypes. contexts.

"Women have a harder time than men in being perceived as effective leaders." This statement is a(n)

**stereotype. awareness. reference. proven fact. accomodation.

Myers Briggs Type Indicator Assessment recognizes __________ different personality types.

12 **16 24 20 32

The Big Five dimension _____ is also called by its flip side "emotional stability" or "emotional adjustment."

Agreeableness Extraversion Conscientiousness **Neuroticism Openness to experience

Of the Big Five, _____ is the easiest to judge in zero acquaintance situations.

Agreeableness Openness to experience Conscientiousness Neuroticism **Extraversion