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Latest 2026 Update
Q: Enduring characteristics that describe an individual's behavior
Answer:
Personality
Factors determined at conception; biological, physiological, inherent psychological
makeup -
Heredity
Q: Enduring characteristics that describe an individual's behavior
Answer:
personality traits
Test that taps 4 characteristics to classify
Extroverted vs Introverted
Sensing vs Intuitive
Thinking vs Feeling
Q: Judging vs Perceiving
Answer:
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator outgoing vs quiet shy (MBTI) - Extroverted vs
Introverted routine vs unconscious process - Sensing vs Intuitive Logic vs emotion
- Thinking vs Feeling
Q: Structure vs spontaneous
Answer:
Judging vs Perceiving
Personality assessment taps 5 basic dimensions
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Emotional Stability
openness to experience
Q: 0 0 Conscientiousness
,Answer:
Big Five Model sociable, gregarious, assertive - Extroversion
Q: good natured, cooperative, trusting
Answer:
Agreeableness
Q: responsible, dependable, persistent, orginized
Answer:
Conscientiousness calm, self confident, secure - Emotional stability
Q: imagination, sensitivity, curiosity
Answer:
openness to experience
Q: bottom line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence
and worth as a person
Answer:
core self evaluation
Q: degree to which individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and
believes that ends can justify means
Answer:
Machiavellianism
6 personality types for job fit
Realistic
Investigative
Social
Conventional
Enterprising
Q: Artistic
Answer:
personality - job fit theory perfers physical activities - Realistic
Q: prefers thinking, organizing understanding
, Answer:
Investigative prefers helping / developing others - social
Q: verbal activities to obtain influence / power
Answer:
Enterprising creative expression - Artistic
Power Distance
individualism vs collectivism
masculinity vs femininity
uncertainty avoidance
Q: long term versus short term orientation
Answer:
Hofstede's dimensions of national culture extent society accepts that power in
institutions is distributed unequally - power distance process by which individuals
organize / interpret their sensory impressions - Perception Perceiver / target /
situation - Perception factors
Q: attempt to determine whether behavior is internally or externally caused
Answer:
Attribution therory whether individual displays different behaviors in different
situation - Distinctiveness everyone facing similar situation responds the same way
- consensus
Q: respond the same way over time
Answer:
Consistency
Q: tendency to underestimate influence of external factors / overestimate internal
factors when making judgement
Answer:
fundamental attribution error
Q: tendency to attribute their own success to internal factors / put blame for
failures on external factors
Latest 2026 Update
Q: Enduring characteristics that describe an individual's behavior
Answer:
Personality
Factors determined at conception; biological, physiological, inherent psychological
makeup -
Heredity
Q: Enduring characteristics that describe an individual's behavior
Answer:
personality traits
Test that taps 4 characteristics to classify
Extroverted vs Introverted
Sensing vs Intuitive
Thinking vs Feeling
Q: Judging vs Perceiving
Answer:
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator outgoing vs quiet shy (MBTI) - Extroverted vs
Introverted routine vs unconscious process - Sensing vs Intuitive Logic vs emotion
- Thinking vs Feeling
Q: Structure vs spontaneous
Answer:
Judging vs Perceiving
Personality assessment taps 5 basic dimensions
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Emotional Stability
openness to experience
Q: 0 0 Conscientiousness
,Answer:
Big Five Model sociable, gregarious, assertive - Extroversion
Q: good natured, cooperative, trusting
Answer:
Agreeableness
Q: responsible, dependable, persistent, orginized
Answer:
Conscientiousness calm, self confident, secure - Emotional stability
Q: imagination, sensitivity, curiosity
Answer:
openness to experience
Q: bottom line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence
and worth as a person
Answer:
core self evaluation
Q: degree to which individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and
believes that ends can justify means
Answer:
Machiavellianism
6 personality types for job fit
Realistic
Investigative
Social
Conventional
Enterprising
Q: Artistic
Answer:
personality - job fit theory perfers physical activities - Realistic
Q: prefers thinking, organizing understanding
, Answer:
Investigative prefers helping / developing others - social
Q: verbal activities to obtain influence / power
Answer:
Enterprising creative expression - Artistic
Power Distance
individualism vs collectivism
masculinity vs femininity
uncertainty avoidance
Q: long term versus short term orientation
Answer:
Hofstede's dimensions of national culture extent society accepts that power in
institutions is distributed unequally - power distance process by which individuals
organize / interpret their sensory impressions - Perception Perceiver / target /
situation - Perception factors
Q: attempt to determine whether behavior is internally or externally caused
Answer:
Attribution therory whether individual displays different behaviors in different
situation - Distinctiveness everyone facing similar situation responds the same way
- consensus
Q: respond the same way over time
Answer:
Consistency
Q: tendency to underestimate influence of external factors / overestimate internal
factors when making judgement
Answer:
fundamental attribution error
Q: tendency to attribute their own success to internal factors / put blame for
failures on external factors
