WGU C715 Shortened: Exam Questions and Answers with Verified
Solutions | Latest 2026 Update
Q: gordon allport: individual psychophysical systems that determine unique
adjustments to the environment
Answer:
PERSONALITY
Q: factors determined at conception
Answer:
HEREDITY
Q: Personality assessment. Scales on introversion/extroversion, sensing/intuition,
thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving
Answer:
JPIE SITF - MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR
Q: Extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness
to experience
Answer:
CEOEA - THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY MODEL
Q: Degree of individual maintaining emotional distance and believing the end
justifies the means (manipulatives, self-interested, domineering).
Answer:
Machiavellianism
Tendency to be arrogant, entitled, self-importance, and requiring excessive
admiration. -
Narcissism
Q: A personality trait to adjust behavior to external, situational factors.
Answer:
SELF-MONITORING Identifying opportunities, initiative, action, and persevering
until meaningful change occurs. -
PROACTIVE PERSONALITY
, Q: Basic convictions that are personally or socially preferable.
Answer:
VALUES Goals for a lifetime. - TERMINAL VALUES
Q: Modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values
Answer:
INSTRUMENTAL VALUES
Q: National culture attribute, extent that a society accepts that power in
institutions/organizations is distributed unequally
Answer:
POWER DISTANCE
Process for organizing and interpreting sensory input to give meaning to the
environment. -
PERCEPTION
An attempt to figure out if an individual's behavior is internally or externally
caused -
ATTRIBUTION THEORY
Q: Tendency to underestimate external factors and overestimate internal factors
regarding the behavior of others.
Answer:
FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR
Q: Successes to internal factors and external factors for failures.
Answer:
SELF-SERVING BIAS Selectively interpret what one sees based on interests,
background, experiences, and attitude. -
SELECTIVE PERCEPTION
Q: A general impression of an individual based on a single characteristic.
Solutions | Latest 2026 Update
Q: gordon allport: individual psychophysical systems that determine unique
adjustments to the environment
Answer:
PERSONALITY
Q: factors determined at conception
Answer:
HEREDITY
Q: Personality assessment. Scales on introversion/extroversion, sensing/intuition,
thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving
Answer:
JPIE SITF - MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR
Q: Extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness
to experience
Answer:
CEOEA - THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY MODEL
Q: Degree of individual maintaining emotional distance and believing the end
justifies the means (manipulatives, self-interested, domineering).
Answer:
Machiavellianism
Tendency to be arrogant, entitled, self-importance, and requiring excessive
admiration. -
Narcissism
Q: A personality trait to adjust behavior to external, situational factors.
Answer:
SELF-MONITORING Identifying opportunities, initiative, action, and persevering
until meaningful change occurs. -
PROACTIVE PERSONALITY
, Q: Basic convictions that are personally or socially preferable.
Answer:
VALUES Goals for a lifetime. - TERMINAL VALUES
Q: Modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values
Answer:
INSTRUMENTAL VALUES
Q: National culture attribute, extent that a society accepts that power in
institutions/organizations is distributed unequally
Answer:
POWER DISTANCE
Process for organizing and interpreting sensory input to give meaning to the
environment. -
PERCEPTION
An attempt to figure out if an individual's behavior is internally or externally
caused -
ATTRIBUTION THEORY
Q: Tendency to underestimate external factors and overestimate internal factors
regarding the behavior of others.
Answer:
FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR
Q: Successes to internal factors and external factors for failures.
Answer:
SELF-SERVING BIAS Selectively interpret what one sees based on interests,
background, experiences, and attitude. -
SELECTIVE PERCEPTION
Q: A general impression of an individual based on a single characteristic.
