Give It A Name
This scientist thought there was a third way to think about personality, in which traits and situations interacted?
Yuichi Shoda
pg. 103
This principal holds that we cannot apply one-dimensional thinking to understand something that is complex
The Jaggedness Principal
pg. 82
These psychologists believe that culture and immediate circumstances determine how we behave.
Situation psychologists
pg. 99
What type of psychologists argue that our behavior is determined by well-defined personality traits, such as introversion and extroversion?
Trait Psychologists
pg. 99
What type of personality test assumes we can be either extroverts or introverts but not both?
Trait-Based Personality Test
pg. 104
Which psychologist held the belief that if you are good or eminent at one thing, you are good or eminent at all things?
Francis Galton
pg. 80
A quality that is jagged must meet what two criteria?
1. It must consist of multiple dimensions
2. These dimensions must be weakly related to each other.
pg. 82
_________ has helped more than ten thousand hiring managers at businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies switch to performance-based hiring
The Adler Group
pg. 116
Situation psychologists, on average, were able to predict how most people would behave in a situation, they could never predict how any particular _____ was going to behave.
Individual
pg. 109
89 of the fortune 100 companies, thousands of universities, and hundreds of government agencies used this assessment to categorize people into sixteen distinct personality types.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
pg. 100
Who developed a new way to recruit and hire employees that he calls performance-based hiring?
Lou Adler
pg. 116
What is the mathematical term to express the relationship between the relatively independent dimensions of a jagged trait?
Weak Correlations
pg. 85
The belief that deep down in the bedrock of a person's soul, someone is essentially wired to be friendly or unfriendly, introvert or extrovert, etc., and that these defining characteristics will shine through no matter the circumstances is known as what?
Essentialist Thinking
pg. 101
Your personality traits explain what percent of your behavior?
9%
pg. 102
One of the most famous studies cited to support the importance of self control, and arguably the most famous psychology test of our generation is called the what?
Marshmallow Study
pg. 112
During their current hiring process, what company rarely ask candidates for their GPA's, and no longer require test scores for any candidate?
pg. 93
Who discovered the jaggedness of Google talent and, as a result, made changes to the way Google recruits new employees?
Todd Carlisle
pg. 92
A 2012 Vanity Fair article called the era Microsoft relied on stacked ranking the _______ .
Lost Decade
pg. 80
In 2012, this was not only common practice when recruiting new employees, but also the most prevalent method of evaluating existing employees.
Ranking individuals on a single or handful of metrics.
pg. 78
Professor Shoda's study on two boys with identical aggression levels revealing that one boy was aggressive around adults but not his peers, while the other boy was aggressive towards his peers but not adults showed the practical value of knowing someone's what?
If-Then Signatures
pg. 106
Due to their single-score employee evaluation not working as well as they had planned, which company had to spend a lot of time and finances analyzing the missed talent that they felt they should have hired, but didn't?
pg. 79
Just about any meaningful human characteristic, especially talent, consists of what?
Multiple Dimensions
pg. 84
Instead of submitting a resume, candidates submitted a statement of passion for the company, and answered four questions that tested their coding ability as part of the hiring process. What company is this and what is the name of the program?
IGN , Code-Foo program
pgs. 93-94
Name two reasons people's personalities seem stable to us.
1. We tend to interact with most people within a narrow range of context.
2. You are part of their context.
pg. 118
What states that individual behavior can not be determined by traits or the situation, but emerges out of the unique interaction between the two?
The Context Principle
pg. 106