WGU C484 EXAM STUDY GUIDE ACTUAL
EXAM SOLVED QUESTIONS 2026 100%
CORRECT.
◍ Heredity. Answer: factors determined at conception; one's
biological, physiological and inherent psychological makeup
◍ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Answer: a personality test that taps
four characteristics and classifies people into 1 of 16 personality types
◍ Problem with Myers-Briggs. Answer: it forces you into one or
another personality type, there is no in-between
◍ Big Five Personality Model. Answer: A personality assessment
model that taps five basic dimensions: Extraversion, Agreeableness,
Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability and Openness to Experience
◍ Extraversion. Answer: extraverts tend to be gregarious, assertive,
and sociable, while introverts tend to be reserved, timid and quiet
◍ Agreeableness. Answer: highly agreeable people are cooperative,
warm and trusting. people who score low on agreeableness are cold,
disagreeable and antagonistic
,◍ Conscientiousness. Answer: A highly conscientious person is
responsible, organized, dependable and persistent. Those who score
low on this dimension are easily distracted, disorganized and
unreliable.
◍ Emotional Stability. Answer: People with positive emotional
stability tend to be calm, self-confident, and secure. Those with high
negative scores tend to be nervous, anxious, depressed and insecure.
◍ Openness to Experience. Answer: Extremely open people are
creative, curious, and artistically sensitive. Those at the other end of
the category are conventional and find comfort in the familiar.
◍ 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 the ends justify
the means
◍ narcissism. Answer: the tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose
sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a
sense of entitlement.
◍ Self-monitoring. Answer: a personality trait that measures an
individual's 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
◍ Other orientation. Answer: employees high in other-orientation also
exert especially high levels of effort when engaged in helping work or
prosocial behavior
◍ 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
◍ Rokeach Value Survey. Answer: consists of two sets of values,
terminal values and instrumental values
◍ 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 acheiving 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.
◍ Person-organization fit. Answer: people are attracted to and
selected by organizations that match their values and they leave
organizations that are not compatible with their personalities
◍ Power distance. Answer: a national cultural attribute that describes
the extent to which a society accepts that power in institutions and
organizations is distributed unequally
◍ Individualism. Answer: the degree to which people prefer to act as
individuals rather than as members of groups
◍ Collectivism. Answer: 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: favors traditional work roles of achievement,
power and control. Societal values are characterized by assertiveness
and materialism
◍ Femininity. Answer: indicates little differentiation between male
and female roles. A high rating indicates that women are treated as the
equals of men in all aspects of society
EXAM SOLVED QUESTIONS 2026 100%
CORRECT.
◍ Heredity. Answer: factors determined at conception; one's
biological, physiological and inherent psychological makeup
◍ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Answer: a personality test that taps
four characteristics and classifies people into 1 of 16 personality types
◍ Problem with Myers-Briggs. Answer: it forces you into one or
another personality type, there is no in-between
◍ Big Five Personality Model. Answer: A personality assessment
model that taps five basic dimensions: Extraversion, Agreeableness,
Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability and Openness to Experience
◍ Extraversion. Answer: extraverts tend to be gregarious, assertive,
and sociable, while introverts tend to be reserved, timid and quiet
◍ Agreeableness. Answer: highly agreeable people are cooperative,
warm and trusting. people who score low on agreeableness are cold,
disagreeable and antagonistic
,◍ Conscientiousness. Answer: A highly conscientious person is
responsible, organized, dependable and persistent. Those who score
low on this dimension are easily distracted, disorganized and
unreliable.
◍ Emotional Stability. Answer: People with positive emotional
stability tend to be calm, self-confident, and secure. Those with high
negative scores tend to be nervous, anxious, depressed and insecure.
◍ Openness to Experience. Answer: Extremely open people are
creative, curious, and artistically sensitive. Those at the other end of
the category are conventional and find comfort in the familiar.
◍ 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 the ends justify
the means
◍ narcissism. Answer: the tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose
sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a
sense of entitlement.
◍ Self-monitoring. Answer: a personality trait that measures an
individual's 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
◍ Other orientation. Answer: employees high in other-orientation also
exert especially high levels of effort when engaged in helping work or
prosocial behavior
◍ 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
◍ Rokeach Value Survey. Answer: consists of two sets of values,
terminal values and instrumental values
◍ 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 acheiving 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.
◍ Person-organization fit. Answer: people are attracted to and
selected by organizations that match their values and they leave
organizations that are not compatible with their personalities
◍ Power distance. Answer: a national cultural attribute that describes
the extent to which a society accepts that power in institutions and
organizations is distributed unequally
◍ Individualism. Answer: the degree to which people prefer to act as
individuals rather than as members of groups
◍ Collectivism. Answer: 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: favors traditional work roles of achievement,
power and control. Societal values are characterized by assertiveness
and materialism
◍ Femininity. Answer: indicates little differentiation between male
and female roles. A high rating indicates that women are treated as the
equals of men in all aspects of society
