Chapter 2 - Individual Differences: Personality and Values

What is personality?

• Study of moral principles and values, whether actions are right or wrong, outcomes are good or bad

• Clusters of internally-caused behavior tendencies

• the relatively enduring pattern of thoughts, emotions and behaviours that characterize a person along with the psychological processes behind those characteristics

What does it mean by influenced by nurture?

• Referring to heredity origins

• Referring to environmental variable

Extroversion can be explicitly identified in?

• MARS model

• Holland's theory of vocational choice

• Five big factors model

• Schwartz's values model

These are the Big Five factors except?

I. Conscientiousness

II. Agreeableness

III. Neuroticism

IV. Opennes to experience

V. Introversion

• I, II, III and IV

• I, II, III and V

• I, II, IV and V

• All of above

What is the relevant personality dimension for proficient task performance?

• Opennes to experience

• Agreeableness

• Emotional stability

• Conscientiousness

Creative and imaginative are example of?

• Agreeableness

• Openness to experience

• Neuroticism

• Extraversion

Best employees have the highest score on some personality factors. Is this statement true or false?

• True

• False

Both value and personality traits are related to each other with two concepts that differs in a few ways. Is this statement true or false?

• True

• False

Excitement and challenge are under which value category?

• Stimulation

• Hedonism

• Universalism

• Conformity

Which quadrant in Schwartz’s circumplex model refer to motivation to promote the welfare of others and nature?

• Openness to change

• Conservation

• Self-enhancement

• Self-transcendence