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WorksheetsLife Readiness Semester Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Creative Thinking and Critical Thinking cannot be integrated together because the processes are too different.
True
False
Your Risk Quotient (RQ) is the measure of your natural level of risk aversion.
True
False
Which of the following is NOT a quality of critical thinking?
Skepticism
Examining Assumptions
Challenging Reasoning
Group Thinking
Originality is an idea with high probability of being in use.
True
False
Soft skills are considered “transferable skills” because they are relevant for any position and can be transferred from one job to another.
True
False
Which vocabulary word can be defined as a combination of knowledge, skills, abilities, and personal attributes that lead to excellent employee performance?
career competencies
hard skills
communication
lifelong learning
About what percentage of jobs are found through personal contact and networking?
10-20%
30-40%
60-80%
90-95%
What is "receiver bias"?
keeping an open mind
jumping to conclusions because you already know what you think about a speaker or topic
withholding judgment until the speaker has completed the message
considering a new point of view
Which stage of listening involves setting aside judgment and bias to be able to actually listen to the other person's point of view?
Responding
Remembering
Interpreting
Evaluating
The mixed models of Emotional Intelligence include ______ , which are not part of the Ability Model.
developmental stages
personality traits
cognitive abilities
perceptions
What is true of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs?
They look to train student leaders to assist others.
They look to merge extra-curricular activities with EI.
They focus on teacher training to read emotions.
They look to merge thinking, feeling, and behaving.
What is one of the criticisms of the performance assessment, MSCEIT?
It does not measure expression and monitoring of one's emotions.
There is no correlation to IQ.
It is an invasion of a person's privacy.
The test-retest reliability is low.
What is major criticism of Emotional Intelligence research?
People cannot label emotions well.
Researchers disagree on the basic human emotions.
Most of the studies are in the United States and Europe.
Too much emphasis on EI in business.
Having the ability to remain open to a wide range of emotions, and having strategies to regulate emotions are which part of the Ability Model?
Emotional Thinking
Perception of emotion
Measuring emotion
Management of emotion
Daniel Goleman felt emotional intelligence was a combination of which three factors?
genetics, upbringing, evolution
cognitive intelligence, personality, emotional skills
personality, situational behavior, learned skills
education, family values, cultural values
Aristotle was an early philosopher who disagreed with the main premise that ______.
emotions drive cognitions
cognition is needed to control emotions
emotions get in the way of rational decisions
cognition and emotion are separate functions
When you truly think about what a person is saying and ask them to explain if you do not understand (instead of jumping to conclusions), you have been successful in the responding stage of listening.
True
False
Self-efficacy was first introduced as a concept in 1977 by…
Maddux and Gosselin
Bandura
Cohen, Karmarck, and Mermelstein
Stajkovic and Luthans
When you associate negative moods and negative physical sensations with failure, and positive physical sensations with success.
Imaginal Performances
Vicarious Performances
Affective States and Physical Sensations
Performance Experiences
Self-efficacy and Self-esteem are very closely related concepts.
True
False
According to the Mehrabian Equation, how much of our total communication is made up Nonverbal (facial expressions and other forms of body language) communication?
7%
25%
55%
85%
A receiver experiences confusion over the meaning of a source’s word choice is which noise?
Physical noise
Psychological noise
Physiological noise
Semantic noise
Your elevator/networking pitch should only have about 4 or 5 key points.
True
False
All of these can help you find a healthy routine for working from home except:
Check your phone for emails or messages as soon as you wake up.
Try to complete tasks around the same time every day.
Eat a healthy breakfast - proteins, grains, and fruits.
Set a time to end your day and close your computer.
What is the basic premise of Emotional Intelligence (EI)?
Emotions have been affected by evolution.
Emotions are active mental processes that can be managed.
Emotions are automatic response to stimuli.
Emotions are embedded in genetics.
