WGU C715 Practice Exam: C715 Pre-Assesment : Questions &
Answers
a complex set of characteristics that makes you unique - ANSWER:PERSONALITY
factors determined at conception - ANSWER:HEREDITY
the most widely used personality assessment in the world. includes scales on introversion/extroversion,
sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving - ANSWER:MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR
personality typing instrument which includes extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional
stability, openness to experience - ANSWER:THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY MODEL
the degree to which an individual's pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes the end
justifies the means - ANSWER:Machiavellianism
the tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration,
and have a sense of entitlement - ANSWER:NARCISSM
A personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust his or her behavior to external,
situational factors. - ANSWER:SELF-MONITORING
people identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
- ANSWER:PROACTIVE PERSONALITY
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 - ANSWER:VALUES
desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime -
ANSWER:TERMINAL VALUES
preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values - ANSWER:INSTRUMENTAL
VALUES
a national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society accepts that power in institutions
and organizations is distributed unequally - ANSWER:POWER DISTANCE
a process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning
to their environment - ANSWER:PERCEPTION
an attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is internally or externally caused -
ANSWER:ATTRIBUTION THEORY
the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of
internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others - ANSWER:FUNDAMENTAL
ATTRIBUTION ERROR
the tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors and put the blame for
failures on external factors - ANSWER:SELF-SERVING BIAS
, the tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis of one's interests, background,
experience, and attitude - ANSWER:SELECTIVE PERCEPTION
the tendency to draw a general impression about an individual on the basis of a single characteristic -
ANSWER:HALO EFFECT
evaluation of a person's characteristics that is affected by comparisons with other people recently
encountered who rank higher or lower on the same characteristics - ANSWER:CONTRAST EFFECT
judging someone on the basis of one's perception of the group to which it belongs -
ANSWER:STEREOTYPING
a situation in which a person inaccurately perceives a second person, and the resulting expectations
cause the second person to behave in ways consistent with the original perception - ANSWER:SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHECY
a decision-making model that describes how individuals should behave in order to maximize some
outcomes - ANSWER:RATIONAL DECISION-MAKING MODEL
a process of making decisions by constructing simplified models that the essential features from
problems without capturing all their complexity - ANSWER:BOUNDED RATIONALITY
an unconscious process distilled out of distilled experience - ANSWER:INTUITION DECISION-MAKING
a tendency to fixate on initial information from which one then fails to adequately adjust for subsequent
information - ANSWER:ANCHORING BIAS
the tendency to seek out information that reaffirms past choices and to discount information that
contradicts past judgments - ANSWER:CONFIRMATION BIAS
the tendency to prefer a sure gain of a moderate amount over a riskier outcome even if the riskier
outcome might have a higher expected payoff - ANSWER:RISK ADVERSION
the processes that account for an individuals intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward
maintaining a goal - ANSWER:MOTIVATION
abram maslow's _________ (5) physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization- in which as
each need is substantially satisfied, the next becomes dominant - ANSWER:HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
needs that are satisfied externally, such as physiological and safety needs - ANSWER:LOWER ORDER
NEEDS
the drive to become what a person is capable of becoming - ANSWER:SELF-ACTUALIZATION
needs that are satisfied internally, such as social, esteem, and self-actualization - ANSWER:HIGHER-
ORDER NEEDS
the assumption that employees dislike work, are lazy, dislike responsibility, and must be coerced to
perform - ANSWER:THEORY X
the assumption that employees like work, are creative, seek responsibility, and can exercise self-direction
- ANSWER:THEORY Y
Answers
a complex set of characteristics that makes you unique - ANSWER:PERSONALITY
factors determined at conception - ANSWER:HEREDITY
the most widely used personality assessment in the world. includes scales on introversion/extroversion,
sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving - ANSWER:MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR
personality typing instrument which includes extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional
stability, openness to experience - ANSWER:THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY MODEL
the degree to which an individual's pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes the end
justifies the means - ANSWER:Machiavellianism
the tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration,
and have a sense of entitlement - ANSWER:NARCISSM
A personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust his or her behavior to external,
situational factors. - ANSWER:SELF-MONITORING
people identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
- ANSWER:PROACTIVE PERSONALITY
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 - ANSWER:VALUES
desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime -
ANSWER:TERMINAL VALUES
preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values - ANSWER:INSTRUMENTAL
VALUES
a national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society accepts that power in institutions
and organizations is distributed unequally - ANSWER:POWER DISTANCE
a process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning
to their environment - ANSWER:PERCEPTION
an attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is internally or externally caused -
ANSWER:ATTRIBUTION THEORY
the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of
internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others - ANSWER:FUNDAMENTAL
ATTRIBUTION ERROR
the tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors and put the blame for
failures on external factors - ANSWER:SELF-SERVING BIAS
, the tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis of one's interests, background,
experience, and attitude - ANSWER:SELECTIVE PERCEPTION
the tendency to draw a general impression about an individual on the basis of a single characteristic -
ANSWER:HALO EFFECT
evaluation of a person's characteristics that is affected by comparisons with other people recently
encountered who rank higher or lower on the same characteristics - ANSWER:CONTRAST EFFECT
judging someone on the basis of one's perception of the group to which it belongs -
ANSWER:STEREOTYPING
a situation in which a person inaccurately perceives a second person, and the resulting expectations
cause the second person to behave in ways consistent with the original perception - ANSWER:SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHECY
a decision-making model that describes how individuals should behave in order to maximize some
outcomes - ANSWER:RATIONAL DECISION-MAKING MODEL
a process of making decisions by constructing simplified models that the essential features from
problems without capturing all their complexity - ANSWER:BOUNDED RATIONALITY
an unconscious process distilled out of distilled experience - ANSWER:INTUITION DECISION-MAKING
a tendency to fixate on initial information from which one then fails to adequately adjust for subsequent
information - ANSWER:ANCHORING BIAS
the tendency to seek out information that reaffirms past choices and to discount information that
contradicts past judgments - ANSWER:CONFIRMATION BIAS
the tendency to prefer a sure gain of a moderate amount over a riskier outcome even if the riskier
outcome might have a higher expected payoff - ANSWER:RISK ADVERSION
the processes that account for an individuals intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward
maintaining a goal - ANSWER:MOTIVATION
abram maslow's _________ (5) physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization- in which as
each need is substantially satisfied, the next becomes dominant - ANSWER:HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
needs that are satisfied externally, such as physiological and safety needs - ANSWER:LOWER ORDER
NEEDS
the drive to become what a person is capable of becoming - ANSWER:SELF-ACTUALIZATION
needs that are satisfied internally, such as social, esteem, and self-actualization - ANSWER:HIGHER-
ORDER NEEDS
the assumption that employees dislike work, are lazy, dislike responsibility, and must be coerced to
perform - ANSWER:THEORY X
the assumption that employees like work, are creative, seek responsibility, and can exercise self-direction
- ANSWER:THEORY Y
