WGU D152 CERTIFICATION EVALUATION
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
PRACTICE PACK
●● 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: Values that we work towards (happiness, self-respect, family
security, recognition)
, ●● instrumental values
Answer: Core values that are permanent in nature (honesty, sincerity,
ambition, independence)
●● 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
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
PRACTICE PACK
●● 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: Values that we work towards (happiness, self-respect, family
security, recognition)
, ●● instrumental values
Answer: Core values that are permanent in nature (honesty, sincerity,
ambition, independence)
●● 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
