Chapter 3 Vocab
True or False: The "Big Five" Personality Traits are agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, extraversion, and openness.
True
True or False: A company shouldn't provide a realistic job preview because providing the negative information about a job would cause applicants to not want the job and then the company wouldn’t be able to find someone to hire.
True or False: "Cognitive Dissonance" is when one's brain is overworked from heavy thinking and starts to confuse facts with opinions.
False
Which behavior are you most likely to engage in if you have a POSITIVE attitude about your job
A. Talk to coworkers about your personal lives instead of completing work
B. Go home early whenever you can
C. Surf the internet while at work
D. Take on extra responsibilities and projects to further your career
D. Take on extra responsibilities and projects to further your career
Which involves the manner in which individuals process and organize information?
A. Logical intelligence
B. Emotional intelligence
C. Information processing capacity
D. General mental ability
C. Information processing capacity
What term matches this definition: personal attributes that vary from one person to another.
a. personal differences
b. individual differences
c. group differences
d. social differences
b. individual differences
Veronica is struggling to figure out if she has more of a Type A or Type B personality. Based on the following characteristics how would you define her personality type? She is very competitive, tends to have high job performance, and her friends and family often complain about how she tends to work too much overtime and struggles with a work-life balance.
A. Type A
B. Type B
Which of these terms matches the following definition: "Related to the outcomes of doing work, or in other words, the rewards that come from working a specific job."
a. Intrinsic Work Values
b. External Work Values
c. Internal Work Values
d. Extrinsic Work Values
d. Extrinsic Work Values
Suppose that you have deep values of environmental sustainability and incorporate this value into your daily life by taking public transportation to work, recycling, and utilizing solar energy. You have just started working for an off-shore oil drilling company which is not regarded as environmentally sustainable. Which of the following are you likely to experience:
A. Individual-organizational value conflict
B. Individual-representational value conflict
C. Economic value conflict
D. Interpersonal value conflict
A. Individual-organizational value conflict
Which fit is between an individual's values, beliefs, and personality and the values, norms, and culture of the company they work for?
A. Person-organization
B. Person-job
C. Person-group
D. Person-vocation
A. Person-organization
What is the definition of "General Mental Ability"?
The capacity to rapidly and fluidly acquire, process, and apply information.
In which of the following scenarios would a person's personality be the least likely to influence their behavior?
A. A chill gathering with all of their friends
B. A group meeting to brainstorm ideas for a project.
C. A business presentation that is in front of the executive board.
D. A birthday party for their mother.
E. None of the above
C. A business presenentation that is in front of the excetivie board
What is the definition of "Instrumental Values"?
Our preferred means of achieving our terminal values or our preferred ways of behaving.
The general adaptation syndrome (GAS) model of stress, which says that people under stress respond in three ways. According to the model, which of the following is NOT a response to stress.
A. Exhaustion
B. Helplessness
C. Alarm
D. Resistance
B. Helplessness
If employees perceive a direct threat to their career opportunities, how are they most likely to respond?
A. By feeling the need to protect their own prospects by impeding diversity efforts
B. By being very helpful to minority employees
C. By being very supportive of diversity initiatives
D. By helping recruit diverse candidates for new positions
A. By feeling the need to protect their own prospects by impeding diversity efforts
What is the definition of "Sensory Modality"?
A system that interacts with the environment through one of our basic senses. In simple terms, our learning style approach.
According to the book what are the 4 most important sensory modalities and the explanation of each of them?
Visual (learning by seeing), Auditory (learning by hearing), Tactile (learning by touching),and Kinesthetic (learning by doing)
Staying with an organization (company) because leaving would result in high social and/or economic loss.
If a person smokes while also believing that smoking is bad for them and that they should quit, they are being affected by:
A. Perceptive Conflict
B. Behavioral Outcomes
C. Cognitive Dissonance
D. Personal Bias
C. Cognitive Dissonance
Each of the following was a disadvantage of scientific management EXCEPT:
A. increased monotony
B. lower productivity
C. resistance from workers
D. no room for initiative
B. lower productivity
What term defines "the behavior directed at gaining power and controlling the behavior of others"?
Machiavellianism
What are the seven forms of Intelligence according to Garnder’s Theory?
Linguistic, Logical, Musical, Bodily, Spatial, Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal
What term is the definition of something that "represents our tendency to experience a particular mood or to react to things with certain emotions."
Affectivity
A hiring manager for a firm is looking at 3 potential candidates for a job position. They decided to choose John Smith because he was formerly a student athlete and it is inferred that they have a strong work ethic. Which perception effect has influenced the hiring manager's decision?
A. The halo effect
B. The contrast effect
C."like me" bias
D. First impression bias
A. The halo effect
Dalia is a good worker, but she often challenges her boss and questions her boss's directives. This reflects Dalia's
A. High Machiavellianism.
B. Low Machiavellianism.
C. High authoritarianism.
D. Low authoritarianism.
D. Low authoritarianism