MNGT 3460 Exam 3 Auburn – Wesson
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Personality - Refers to the structures and propensities inside a person that explain his or her
characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior
Captures what people are like
Traits - Recurring regularities or trends in people's responses to their environment
Cultural values - shared beliefs about desirable end states or modes of conduct in a given culture,
influence the development of a person's personality traits
How does personality develop? - Nature: Study of identical twins, Genes
Nurture: surrounding, experiences
Big Five Personality Traits - Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion,
agreeableness, neuroticism
Conscientiousness - Dependable, organized, reliable, ambitious, hardworking, and persevering
Has the biggest influence on job performance
Accomplishment striving - A strong desire to accomplish task-related goals as a means of
expressing one's personality
Agreeableness - Warm, kind, cooperative, sympathetic, helpful, and courteous
,Communion striving - A strong desire to obtain acceptance in personal relationships as a means
of expressing one's personality
Extraversion - Talkative, sociable, passionate, assertive, bold, dominant
Zero acquaintance situations - Situations in which two people have only just met
Status striving - A strong desire to obtain power and influence within a social structure as a
means of expressing one's personality
Positive affectivity - A dispositional tendency to experience pleasant, engaging moods such as
enthusiasm, excitement, and elation
Neuroticism - Nervous, moody, emotional, insecure, and jealous
Negative affectivity - A dispositional tendency to experience unpleasant moods such as hostility,
nervousness, and annoyance
Differential exposure - Meaning that neurotic people are more likely to appraise day-to-day
situations as stressful
Differential reactivity - Meaning that neurotic people are less likely to believe they can cope with
the stressors that they experience
Locus of control - Reflects whether people attribute the causes of events to themselves or to the
external environment
External locus of control - Meaning that they often believe that the events that occur around them
are driven by luck, chance, or fate
, Internal locus of control - Meaning that they believe that their own behavior dictates events
Openness to experience - Curious, imaginative, creative, complex, refined, sophisticated
Myer-Briggs Type Indicator - Evaluates individuals on the basis of four types of preferences
Extraversion vs Intraversion
Sensing vs Intuition
Thinking vs Feeling
Judging vs Perceiving
Extraversion vs Intraversion - Being energized by people and social interactions vs Being
energized by private time and reflection
Sensing vs Intuition - Preferring clear and concrete facts and data vs Preferring hunches and
speculations based on theory and imagination
Thinking vs Feeling - Approaching decisions with logic and critical analysis vs Approaching
decisions with an emphasis on others' needs and feelings
Judging vs Perceiving - Approaching tasks by planning and setting goals vs Preferring to have
flexibility and spontaneity when performing tasks
RIASEC model - suggests that interests can be summarized by six different personality types:
realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional
Realistic - Enjoys practical, hands-on, real-world tasks.
Investigative - Enjoys abstract, analytical, theory-oriented tasks
UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Personality - Refers to the structures and propensities inside a person that explain his or her
characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior
Captures what people are like
Traits - Recurring regularities or trends in people's responses to their environment
Cultural values - shared beliefs about desirable end states or modes of conduct in a given culture,
influence the development of a person's personality traits
How does personality develop? - Nature: Study of identical twins, Genes
Nurture: surrounding, experiences
Big Five Personality Traits - Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion,
agreeableness, neuroticism
Conscientiousness - Dependable, organized, reliable, ambitious, hardworking, and persevering
Has the biggest influence on job performance
Accomplishment striving - A strong desire to accomplish task-related goals as a means of
expressing one's personality
Agreeableness - Warm, kind, cooperative, sympathetic, helpful, and courteous
,Communion striving - A strong desire to obtain acceptance in personal relationships as a means
of expressing one's personality
Extraversion - Talkative, sociable, passionate, assertive, bold, dominant
Zero acquaintance situations - Situations in which two people have only just met
Status striving - A strong desire to obtain power and influence within a social structure as a
means of expressing one's personality
Positive affectivity - A dispositional tendency to experience pleasant, engaging moods such as
enthusiasm, excitement, and elation
Neuroticism - Nervous, moody, emotional, insecure, and jealous
Negative affectivity - A dispositional tendency to experience unpleasant moods such as hostility,
nervousness, and annoyance
Differential exposure - Meaning that neurotic people are more likely to appraise day-to-day
situations as stressful
Differential reactivity - Meaning that neurotic people are less likely to believe they can cope with
the stressors that they experience
Locus of control - Reflects whether people attribute the causes of events to themselves or to the
external environment
External locus of control - Meaning that they often believe that the events that occur around them
are driven by luck, chance, or fate
, Internal locus of control - Meaning that they believe that their own behavior dictates events
Openness to experience - Curious, imaginative, creative, complex, refined, sophisticated
Myer-Briggs Type Indicator - Evaluates individuals on the basis of four types of preferences
Extraversion vs Intraversion
Sensing vs Intuition
Thinking vs Feeling
Judging vs Perceiving
Extraversion vs Intraversion - Being energized by people and social interactions vs Being
energized by private time and reflection
Sensing vs Intuition - Preferring clear and concrete facts and data vs Preferring hunches and
speculations based on theory and imagination
Thinking vs Feeling - Approaching decisions with logic and critical analysis vs Approaching
decisions with an emphasis on others' needs and feelings
Judging vs Perceiving - Approaching tasks by planning and setting goals vs Preferring to have
flexibility and spontaneity when performing tasks
RIASEC model - suggests that interests can be summarized by six different personality types:
realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional
Realistic - Enjoys practical, hands-on, real-world tasks.
Investigative - Enjoys abstract, analytical, theory-oriented tasks
