Parts of a Whole
Theories
Terms & Definitions
100

Extraverted/Introverted, Sensing/Intuitive, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving.

What are the Myers-Briggs personality characteristics.

100

The theory that proposes that five basic personality dimensions underlie all others and encompass most of the significant variation in human personality.

What is the Big Five Personality Model?

100

A group whose individual efforts result in performance that is greater than the sum of the individual inputs.

What is a team?

200

Physiological needs, safety needs, belonging needs, self-esteem needs, and self-actualization needs.

What are the components of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs?

200

A theory that says that specific and difficult goals, with feedback, lead to higher performance.

What is goal-setting theory?

200

The intensity, direction, and persistence of effort a person shows in reaching a goal.

What is motivation?

300

The situation, the perceiver, and the target

What are the factors that influence perception?

300

The theory that individuals act based on their evaluation of whether their effort will lead to good performance, whether good performance will be followed by a given outcome, and whether that outcome is attractive.

What is expectancy theory?

300

The tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors while putting the blame for failures on external factors.

What is self-serving bias?

400
Distributive justice, procedural justice, informational justice, and interpersonal justice

What are the components of organizational justice?

400

The theory that when we observe what seems like atypical behaviour by an individual, we attempt to determine whether it is internally or externally caused.

What is attribution theory?

400

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.

What are values?