personality - correct answer characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
personality traits - correct answer characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a large number of situations
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - correct answer A personality test that taps four...
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personality - correct answer characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
personality traits - correct answer characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a large number of situations
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - correct answer A personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies Behavior
Big Five Model - correct answer A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
extraversion - correct answer A personality describing someone who is sociable and assertive (confident and forceful )
agreeableness - correct answer A personality that describes someone who is good natured, cooperative,
and trusting.
conscientiousness - correct answer A personality that describes someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
emotional stability - correct answer A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, and insecure.
openness to experience - correct answer A personality that characterizes someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
core self-evaluation - correct answer Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person. Machiavellianism - correct answer The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means.
narcissism - correct answer The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
self-monitoring - correct answer where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors.
proactive personality - correct answer People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
values - correct answer 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.
value system - correct answer A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity.
terminal values - correct answer Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime.
instrumental values - correct answer Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal
values.
personality Job-fit theory - correct answer A theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between personality type and occupational environment determines satisfaction and turnover.
power distance - correct answer where society accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally.
individualism - correct answer where people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members of groups. collectivism - correct answer A national culture attribute that describes a tight social framework in which
people expect others in groups of which they are a part to look after them and protect them.
masculinity - correct answer where culture favors traditional masculine work roles of achievement, power, and control.
femininity - correct answer indicates little differentiation between male and female roles; where women
are treated as the equals of men in all aspects of the society.
uncertainty avoidance - correct answer A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society feels threatened by uncertain and ambiguous situations and tries to avoid them.
long-term orientation - correct answer A national culture attribute that emphasizes the future, thrift, and persistence.
short-term orientation - correct answer A national culture attribute that emphasizes the past and present, respect for tradition, and fulfillment of social obligations. people value the here and now; they accept change more readily and don't see commitments as impediments to change.
heredity - correct answer factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.
Perception - correct answer A process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
attribution theory - correct answer An attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is internally or externally caused.
fundamental attribution error - correct answer The tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of
others.
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