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
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,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
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, 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
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
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
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,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
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, 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
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