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XAM 2025 KEY TERMS STUDY Q&A
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personality
characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
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personality traits
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characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a large number of situations
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
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A personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies Behavior
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Big Five Model
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A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions. extraversion, agre
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eableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
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extraversion

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A personality describing someone who is sociable and assertive (confident and for
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agreeableness

A personality that describes someone who is good natured, cooperative, and trustin
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conscientiousness

A personality that describes someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, a
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nd organized.
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emotional stability
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A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, and insecure.
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openness to experience
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A personality that characterizes someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and c
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uriosity.




core self-evaluation
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Bottom-
line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth a
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s a person.
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Machiavellianism
The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and
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believes that ends can justify means.
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narcissism
The tendency to be arrogant, self-
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importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
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self-monitoring
where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situation
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al factors.
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People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until
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meaningful change occurs. m m

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values
Basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct or end-
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state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or convers
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e mode of conduct or end-state of existence.
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value system
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A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity.
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states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during his or her lifeti
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Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values.
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personality Job-fit theory m m




A theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between per
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sonality type and occupational environment determines satisfaction and turnover.
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