WGU C785 UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS FULL
SOLUTION GRADED A+
◉ personality traits. Answer: characteristics that describe an
individual's behavior in a large number of situations
◉ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Answer: A personality test
that taps four characteristics and classifies Behavior
◉ Big Five Model. Answer: A personality assessment model that taps
five basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness,
conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
◉ extraversion. Answer: A personality describing someone who is
sociable and assertive (confident and forceful )
◉ agreeableness. Answer: A personality that describes someone who
is good natured, cooperative, and trusting.
◉ conscientiousness. Answer: A personality that describes someone
who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
,◉ emotional stability. Answer: A personality that characterizes
someone as calm, self-confident, and insecure.
◉ openness to experience. Answer: A personality that characterizes
someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
◉ core self-evaluation. Answer: Bottom-line conclusions individuals
have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person.
◉ Machiavellianism. Answer: The degree to which an individual is
pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can
justify means.
◉ narcissism. Answer: The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance,
require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
◉ self-monitoring. Answer: where an individual's has ability to adjust
his or her behavior to external, situational factors.
◉ proactive personality. Answer: People who identify opportunities,
show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change
occurs.
◉ values. 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. Answer: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an
individual's values in terms of their intensity.
◉ terminal values. Answer: Desirable end-states of existence; the
goals a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime.
◉ instrumental values. Answer: Preferable modes of behavior or
means of achieving one's terminal values.
◉ personality Job-fit theory. 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. Answer: where society accepts that power in
institutions and organizations is distributed unequally.
◉ individualism. Answer: where people prefer to act as individuals
rather than as members of groups.
◉ collectivism. 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. Answer: where culture favors traditional masculine
work roles of achievement, power, and control.
, ◉ femininity. 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. 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. Answer: A national culture attribute that
emphasizes the future, thrift, and persistence.
◉ short-term orientation. 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. Answer: factors determined at conception; one's
biological, physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.
◉ Perception. Answer: A process by which individuals organize and
interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their
environment.
◉ attribution theory. Answer: An attempt to determine whether an
individual's behavior is internally or externally caused.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS FULL
SOLUTION GRADED A+
◉ personality traits. Answer: characteristics that describe an
individual's behavior in a large number of situations
◉ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Answer: A personality test
that taps four characteristics and classifies Behavior
◉ Big Five Model. Answer: A personality assessment model that taps
five basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness,
conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
◉ extraversion. Answer: A personality describing someone who is
sociable and assertive (confident and forceful )
◉ agreeableness. Answer: A personality that describes someone who
is good natured, cooperative, and trusting.
◉ conscientiousness. Answer: A personality that describes someone
who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
,◉ emotional stability. Answer: A personality that characterizes
someone as calm, self-confident, and insecure.
◉ openness to experience. Answer: A personality that characterizes
someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
◉ core self-evaluation. Answer: Bottom-line conclusions individuals
have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person.
◉ Machiavellianism. Answer: The degree to which an individual is
pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can
justify means.
◉ narcissism. Answer: The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance,
require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
◉ self-monitoring. Answer: where an individual's has ability to adjust
his or her behavior to external, situational factors.
◉ proactive personality. Answer: People who identify opportunities,
show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change
occurs.
◉ values. 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. Answer: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an
individual's values in terms of their intensity.
◉ terminal values. Answer: Desirable end-states of existence; the
goals a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime.
◉ instrumental values. Answer: Preferable modes of behavior or
means of achieving one's terminal values.
◉ personality Job-fit theory. 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. Answer: where society accepts that power in
institutions and organizations is distributed unequally.
◉ individualism. Answer: where people prefer to act as individuals
rather than as members of groups.
◉ collectivism. 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. Answer: where culture favors traditional masculine
work roles of achievement, power, and control.
, ◉ femininity. 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. 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. Answer: A national culture attribute that
emphasizes the future, thrift, and persistence.
◉ short-term orientation. 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. Answer: factors determined at conception; one's
biological, physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.
◉ Perception. Answer: A process by which individuals organize and
interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their
environment.
◉ attribution theory. Answer: An attempt to determine whether an
individual's behavior is internally or externally caused.
