Chapter 4

Chapter Quiz

This activity contains 22 questions.

 

           

          According to the Myers-Briggs type Indicator, people who are classified as _____ are conceptualizers.

           

INTJs

 

ESTJs

 

ENTPs

 

MBTIs

 

          In the book Profiles of Genius, thirteen key executives were interviewed and tested and all were found to be _____ types. This result is particularly interesting because this type represents only about five percent of the population.

           

intuitive thinking

 

sensing feeling

 

sensing thinking

 

intuitive feeling

 

           

          Which dimension of the Big Five model refers to an individual's propensity to defer to others?

           

Extroversion

 

Openness to experience

 

Emotional stability

 

Agreeableness

 

           

          Individuals with a(n) _____ believe that what happens to them is due to luck or chance.

           

core locus of control

 

personal locus of control

 

internal locus of control

 

external locus of control

 

           

          Individuals who are high in the _____ dimension of personality manipulate more, win more, are persuaded less, and persuade others more.

           

Rokeach

 

Aesthetic

 

Machiavellianism

 

Narcissism

 

           

          According to Rokeach, _____ values refer to desirable end-states of existence.

           

instrumental

 

aesthetic

 

terminal

 

theoretical

 

 

          The most recent entrants to the workforce are _____.

           

Veterans

 

Nexters

 

Boomers

 

Xers

 

           

          Which of the following is NOT one of Hofstede's five dimensions of national culture?

           

power distance

 

language proficiency

 

quantity of life versus quality of life

 

long-term orientation

 

           

           

          _____ is the degree to which people in a country prefer structured over unstructured situations.

           

Power distance

 

Individualism

 

Uncertainty avoidance

 

Long-term orientation

 

 

          John Holland argues that job satisfaction is highest and turnover lowest where _____.

           

personality and occupation are in agreement

 

an individual is highly motivated

 

salary is high

 

employees have an education

 

 

          If personality characteristics were completely dictated by heredity, they would be fixed at birth and no amount of experience could alter them.

  True

  False

          A substantial body of research supports the MBTI as a valid measure of personality.

  True

  False

                     

           

          Extroverts tend to be reserved, timid, and quiet.

  True

  False

           

          One concern with self-report surveys is that the individual might lie or practice impression management.

  True

  False

           

          Individuals with an internal locus of control believe that they are masters of their own fate.

  True

  False

                     

           

          Terminal values are preferable modes of behavior, or means of achieving one's instrumental values.

  True

  False

           

          The lives of Xers have been shaped by globalization, MTV, AIDS, and computers.

  True

  False

                     

          The loyalty of Boomers is to their careers.

  True

  False

           

          Organizations in a society low in uncertainty avoidance are likely to have more formal rules.

  True

  False

           

          Individuals with Holland's investigative personality are well suited for careers as small business managers.

  True

  False

                     

           

          What are the major factors influencing personality?

 

 

 

           

          What is the difference between Type A and Type B personality?