WGU C224 RESEARCH FOUNDATIONS
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ 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.
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ 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.
