COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GUARANTEED TO PASS
◉ personality traits. Answer: characteristics that describe an individual's
behavior in a large number of situations
◉ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Answer: A personality test that
taps four characteristics and classifies Behavior
◉ Big Five Model. Answer: A personality assessment model that taps
five basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness,
conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
◉ extraversion. Answer: A personality describing someone who is
sociable and assertive (confident and forceful )
◉ agreeableness. Answer: A personality that describes someone who is
good natured, cooperative, and trusting.
◉ conscientiousness. Answer: A personality that describes someone who
is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
,◉ emotional stability. Answer: A personality that characterizes someone
as calm, self-confident, and insecure.
◉ openness to experience. Answer: A personality that characterizes
someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
◉ core self-evaluation. Answer: Bottom-line conclusions individuals
have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person.
◉ Machiavellianism. Answer: The degree to which an individual is
pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can
justify means.
◉ narcissism. Answer: The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance,
require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
◉ self-monitoring. Answer: where an individual's has ability to adjust
his or her behavior to external, situational factors.
◉ proactive personality. Answer: People who identify opportunities,
show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change
occurs.
,◉ values. Answer: 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.
◉ value system. Answer: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an
individual's values in terms of their intensity.
◉ terminal values. Answer: Values that we work towards (happiness,
self-respect, family security, recognition)
◉ instrumental values. Answer: Core values that are permanent in nature
(honesty, sincerity, ambition, independence)
◉ personality Job-fit theory. Answer: A theory that identifies six
personality types and proposes that the fit between personality type and
occupational environment determines satisfaction and turnover.
◉ power distance. Answer: where society accepts that power in
institutions and organizations is distributed unequally.
◉ individualism. Answer: where people prefer to act as individuals
rather than as members of groups.
, ◉ collectivism. Answer: A national culture attribute that describes a tight
social framework in which people expect others in groups of which they
are a part to look after them and protect them.
◉ masculinity. Answer: where culture favors traditional masculine work
roles of achievement, power, and control.
◉ femininity. Answer: indicates little differentiation between male and
female roles; where women are treated as the equals of men in all
aspects of the society.
◉ uncertainty avoidance. Answer: A national culture attribute that
describes the extent to which a society feels threatened by uncertain and
ambiguous situations and tries to avoid them.
◉ long-term orientation. Answer: A national culture attribute that
emphasizes the future, thrift, and persistence.
◉ short-term orientation. Answer: A national culture attribute that
emphasizes the past and present, respect for tradition, and fulfillment of
social obligations. people value the here and now; they accept change
more readily and don't see commitments as impediments to change.
◉ heredity. Answer: factors determined at conception; one's biological,
physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.