MBA 704 UPDATED ALL 2026 SET QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔what are goleman's 5 dimensions to emotional intelligence - ✔✔1. self-awareness
2. self-management
3. self-motivation
4. empathy
5. social skills
✔✔T/F emotional intelligence can be learned and developed - ✔✔true
✔✔what 4 criteria must be met to be considered a POB construct - ✔✔1. based on
theory and research
2. valid measures
3. "state-like"; open to development
4. managed for performance improvement
✔✔what are the 6 positive psychological capacities that meet POB - ✔✔1. efficacy
2. optimism
3. hope
4. resiliency
5. SWB/happiness
6. emotional intelligence
✔✔what term is people reflect back on their actions/experience with a specific
event/task to then cognitively process how strongly they believe they can successfully
accomplish this even/task in the future - ✔✔self-reflection
✔✔what type of efficacy represents a task-and situation-specific cognition, state-like -
✔✔self-efficacy
✔✔what type of efficacy is trait-like - ✔✔general efficacy
, ✔✔the expectations of personal efficacy determines what 3 three things - ✔✔1. the
decision to perform the specific task in this context
2. the amount of effort that will be expended to accomplish the task
3. the level of persistence that will be forthcoming despite problems, disconfirming
evidence, and adversity
✔✔self-efficacy can directly affect what 5 things - ✔✔1. choice behaviors
2. motivational effort
3. perseverance
4. facilitative thought patterns
5. vulnerability to stress
✔✔what term measures the level of task difficulty that a person believes he or she is
capable of executing - ✔✔magnitude
✔✔what term includes instructive modeling to acquire a skill or competency, guided skill
perfection, and then transferring the training back to the job to ensure self-directed
success - ✔✔guided mastery
✔✔what term is to learn thinking skills and how to apply them by observing the decision
rules and reasoning strategies successful models use as they arrive at solutions to
problems and make effective decisions - ✔✔cognitive mastery modeling
✔✔what term is used to depict how an individual habitually attributes the causes of
failure, misfortune, or bad events - ✔✔explanatory style
✔✔what are the 3 more important optimism issues - ✔✔1. little vs. big optimism
2. optimism vs pessimism
3. learning and sustaining optimism
✔✔what time of optimism involves specific expectations about positive outcomes -
✔✔little optimism
✔✔what type of optimism refers to more generic, larger expectations of positive
outcomes - ✔✔big optimism
✔✔whether or not we have hope depends on what two dimensions of our explanatory
style - ✔✔pervasiveness and performance
✔✔what term can be enhanced through developing other positive psychological
capacities such as self-efficacy, hope, and optimism, as well as through teaching people
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔what are goleman's 5 dimensions to emotional intelligence - ✔✔1. self-awareness
2. self-management
3. self-motivation
4. empathy
5. social skills
✔✔T/F emotional intelligence can be learned and developed - ✔✔true
✔✔what 4 criteria must be met to be considered a POB construct - ✔✔1. based on
theory and research
2. valid measures
3. "state-like"; open to development
4. managed for performance improvement
✔✔what are the 6 positive psychological capacities that meet POB - ✔✔1. efficacy
2. optimism
3. hope
4. resiliency
5. SWB/happiness
6. emotional intelligence
✔✔what term is people reflect back on their actions/experience with a specific
event/task to then cognitively process how strongly they believe they can successfully
accomplish this even/task in the future - ✔✔self-reflection
✔✔what type of efficacy represents a task-and situation-specific cognition, state-like -
✔✔self-efficacy
✔✔what type of efficacy is trait-like - ✔✔general efficacy
, ✔✔the expectations of personal efficacy determines what 3 three things - ✔✔1. the
decision to perform the specific task in this context
2. the amount of effort that will be expended to accomplish the task
3. the level of persistence that will be forthcoming despite problems, disconfirming
evidence, and adversity
✔✔self-efficacy can directly affect what 5 things - ✔✔1. choice behaviors
2. motivational effort
3. perseverance
4. facilitative thought patterns
5. vulnerability to stress
✔✔what term measures the level of task difficulty that a person believes he or she is
capable of executing - ✔✔magnitude
✔✔what term includes instructive modeling to acquire a skill or competency, guided skill
perfection, and then transferring the training back to the job to ensure self-directed
success - ✔✔guided mastery
✔✔what term is to learn thinking skills and how to apply them by observing the decision
rules and reasoning strategies successful models use as they arrive at solutions to
problems and make effective decisions - ✔✔cognitive mastery modeling
✔✔what term is used to depict how an individual habitually attributes the causes of
failure, misfortune, or bad events - ✔✔explanatory style
✔✔what are the 3 more important optimism issues - ✔✔1. little vs. big optimism
2. optimism vs pessimism
3. learning and sustaining optimism
✔✔what time of optimism involves specific expectations about positive outcomes -
✔✔little optimism
✔✔what type of optimism refers to more generic, larger expectations of positive
outcomes - ✔✔big optimism
✔✔whether or not we have hope depends on what two dimensions of our explanatory
style - ✔✔pervasiveness and performance
✔✔what term can be enhanced through developing other positive psychological
capacities such as self-efficacy, hope, and optimism, as well as through teaching people
