WK03 Attitudes and Personalities

What are the three components of an attitude?

• Cognitive, affective, and behavioural

• Cognitive, physical, and behavioural

• Affective, behavioural, and physical

• Affective, cognitive, and physical

What is the definition of cognitive dissonance?

• The emotional or feeling segment of an attitude

• The incompatibility an individual might perceive between two or more attitudes or between behaviour and attitudes

• An intention to behave in a certain way towards someone or something

• Any form of inconsistency is being uncomfortable

According to Leon Festinger, what is the relationship between attitudes and behaviour?

• Attitudes do not always follow from behaviour.

• Behaviour always follows from attitudes.

• Behaviour does not always follow from attitudes.

• Attitudes always follow from behaviour.

Job satisfaction is:

• A positive feeling about the tasks you do in a job.

• A positive feeling about a job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics.

• A positive feeling about the tasks you do in a job and the people you work with.

• A positive feeling about the tasks you do in a job and your boss.

In addition to job conditions, what else contributes to job satisfaction?

• Compensation

• Personality

• Social interaction

• Autonomy

What are the two main ways to measure job satisfaction?

• A job satisfaction survey and turnover rates.

• A company rating and turnover rates.

• A company rating and a job satisfaction survey

• A single global rating and a summation score.

When considering personality determinants, which attribute is most closely associated with personality?

• Temperament

• The environment

• Gender

• Heredity

The basic belief that one mode of conduct is preferable to its opposite is known as which of the following?

• Value

• Core self-evaluation

• Emotional stability

• Personality

How do the concepts of core self-evaluation, self-monitoring, and proactive personality help us to understand personality?
Select ALL that apply

• People who have positive core self-evaluations like themselves and see themselves as effective, capable, and in control of their environment.

• Self-monitoring describes an individual's ability to adjust their behaviour in response to external situational factors.

• They allow us to determine a person's level of job satisfaction.

• Proactive personalities identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until a meaningful change occurs.

The Big Five personality traits, sometimes known as "the five-factor model of personality" or "OCEAN model," are a grouping of five unique characteristics used to study what aspects of personality?

• Personality

• Emotional stability

• Value

• Core self-evaluation