Chapter 01
Journey into Self-awareness
True / False Questions
1. Self-awareness involves a capacity to monitor and control biases that potentially affect your
decision making.
True False
2. Though self-awareness helps you develop the ability to know how you are feeling and why, it
does not help you develop relationships with others.
True False
3. Managers who have low self-awareness are superior performers.
True False
4. Cultural differences are insignificant when assessing your own levels of self-awareness and
that of others with whom you interact.
True False
5. Patterns of behavior develop through reactions to events and actions over a period of time.
True False
6. Personality traits of an individual are highly unstable; they change frequently depending on
the situation.
True False
,7. Unlike job satisfaction, life satisfaction is not dispositionally based.
True False
8. Individuals who score high on openness to experience are considered to be uncaring,
disrespectful, and unorganized.
True False
9. High self-monitors are least interested in what others think of them.
True False
10. High self-monitors freely display their feelings and attitude in every situation.
True False
11. Attitudes are easier to influence and change than our behaviors or values.
True False
12. At work, the best managers are those who augment their own perspective with the views of
others.
True False
13. Selective perception facilitates communication with others.
True False
14. Stereotyping involves attributing one's own attitudes, characteristics, or shortcomings to
others.
True False
,15. Projecting our beliefs onto others allows them to provide us with a unique and fresh
perspective.
True False
16. Self-serving bias causes us to overestimate external factors for successes and blame internal
factors for failures.
True False
17. Fundamental attribution error involves underestimating the influence of internal factors when
evaluating the behavior of others.
True False
18. The social mirror is based on our memory of how others have reacted toward us or treated
us.
True False
19. The social mirror is designed to help you learn about yourself, hence it is important to accept
everything that others say to you as reality.
True False
20. Self-awareness can be increased by acquiring multiple experiences in diverse situations and
with diverse others.
True False
Multiple Choice Questions
, 21. _____ is best described as the capacity for introspection and the ability to reconcile oneself
as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals.
A. Self-actualization
B. Self-awareness
C. Self-disclosure
D. Self-isolation
22. In the context of self-awareness among managers, which of the following statements is NOT
true?
A. Self-awareness leads to accurate judgments and enables managers to make good
decisions.
B. Self-aware managers do not need to make any modifications to their personal behavior.
C. Self-awareness when low can lead to an unrealistic notion of one's competencies.
D. Self-aware managers are not only aware of their strengths but also their weaknesses.
Journey into Self-awareness
True / False Questions
1. Self-awareness involves a capacity to monitor and control biases that potentially affect your
decision making.
True False
2. Though self-awareness helps you develop the ability to know how you are feeling and why, it
does not help you develop relationships with others.
True False
3. Managers who have low self-awareness are superior performers.
True False
4. Cultural differences are insignificant when assessing your own levels of self-awareness and
that of others with whom you interact.
True False
5. Patterns of behavior develop through reactions to events and actions over a period of time.
True False
6. Personality traits of an individual are highly unstable; they change frequently depending on
the situation.
True False
,7. Unlike job satisfaction, life satisfaction is not dispositionally based.
True False
8. Individuals who score high on openness to experience are considered to be uncaring,
disrespectful, and unorganized.
True False
9. High self-monitors are least interested in what others think of them.
True False
10. High self-monitors freely display their feelings and attitude in every situation.
True False
11. Attitudes are easier to influence and change than our behaviors or values.
True False
12. At work, the best managers are those who augment their own perspective with the views of
others.
True False
13. Selective perception facilitates communication with others.
True False
14. Stereotyping involves attributing one's own attitudes, characteristics, or shortcomings to
others.
True False
,15. Projecting our beliefs onto others allows them to provide us with a unique and fresh
perspective.
True False
16. Self-serving bias causes us to overestimate external factors for successes and blame internal
factors for failures.
True False
17. Fundamental attribution error involves underestimating the influence of internal factors when
evaluating the behavior of others.
True False
18. The social mirror is based on our memory of how others have reacted toward us or treated
us.
True False
19. The social mirror is designed to help you learn about yourself, hence it is important to accept
everything that others say to you as reality.
True False
20. Self-awareness can be increased by acquiring multiple experiences in diverse situations and
with diverse others.
True False
Multiple Choice Questions
, 21. _____ is best described as the capacity for introspection and the ability to reconcile oneself
as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals.
A. Self-actualization
B. Self-awareness
C. Self-disclosure
D. Self-isolation
22. In the context of self-awareness among managers, which of the following statements is NOT
true?
A. Self-awareness leads to accurate judgments and enables managers to make good
decisions.
B. Self-aware managers do not need to make any modifications to their personal behavior.
C. Self-awareness when low can lead to an unrealistic notion of one's competencies.
D. Self-aware managers are not only aware of their strengths but also their weaknesses.
