Questions and CORRECT Answers
Among the Big Five personality traits, _____ indicates someone who tends to be responsible,
dependable, and careful in respect to tasks.
a. authoritarian
b. agreeable
c. conscientious
d. emotionally stable - CORRECT ANSWER - c. conscientious
A person with a/an _____ personality would most likely act unemotional and manipulative when
trying to influence others to achieve personal goals.
a. extroverted
b. sensation-thinking
c. self-monitoring
d. Machiavellian - CORRECT ANSWER - d. Machiavellian
When a person tends to believe that he or she has little influence over things that happen life, this
indicates a/an _____ personality.
a. low emotional stability
b. external locus of control
c. high self-monitoring
d. intuitive-thinker - CORRECT ANSWER - b. external locus of control
How is a person with an authoritarian personality expected to act?
a. Strong tendency to obey orders.
b. Challenges the authority of other.
c. Tries to play down status differences.
, d. Always flexible in personal behavior - CORRECT ANSWER - a. Strong tendency to obey
orders.
A new team leader who designs jobs for persons on her work team mainly "because I would
prefer to work the new way rather than the old," is committing a perceptual error known as
______.
a. the halo effect
b. stereotyping
c. impression management
d. projection - CORRECT ANSWER - d. projection
If a manager allows one characteristic of a person- say, a pleasant personality- to bias
performance ratings of that individual overall, the manager is falling prey to a perceptual
distortion known as _____.
a. the Halo effect
b. impression management
c. stereotyping
d. projection - CORRECT ANSWER - a. the Halo effect
Use of special dress, manners, gestures, and vocabulary words when meeting a prospective
employer in a job interview are all examples of how people use _____ in daily life.
a. the Halo effect
b. impression management
c. introversion
d. mood contagion - CORRECT ANSWER - b. impression management
_____ is a form of attribution error that involves blaming the environment for problems that we
may have caused ourselves.
a. Self-serving bias
b. Fundamental attribution error