Exam 1: Developing Self-Awareness

Which of the following statements are correct? (1)individuals differ in their level of values development,(2)individuals hold different sets of instrumental values at different stages of development,and (3)peoples' value priorities do not change once they become adults.

Responding to a remark from a peer that a report looks like it was slapped together at the last minute (you had spent most of last week working on it),the sensitive line was crossed.What will the most likely response be?

Individuals who tend to prefer jobs in fields such as social work where personal interactions predominate have which cognitive style?

If you are cheating on this test,you are violating an instrumental value.

George made the following comment to Sarah,one of his co-workers: "Gene's recommendation to cut costs by eliminating travel to training seminars just shows he really isn't aware of how important training is.His lack of insight shows that people of his background aren't savvy enough to figure out the business world?

Lana was sitting somberly in her office.Her face had an angry expression and she had a tear in her eye.One of her co-workers asked her how she was doing.Lana responded,"I am fine." Concerned,the co-worker asked,"Are you sure?" Lana again responded,"Yes,there is nothing wrong,I am fine." Which emotional intelligence ability does Lana most likely need to develop?

Bob enjoys his management professor.She hands out vague assignments and encourages him to be creative and to look at things a different way.Which best describes Bob's tolerance?

Which components contribute to the latent attribute of core self-evaluation? 1.self-esteem 2)self-efficacy 3)locus of control 4)extraversion

If you judge right and wrong on the basis of a set of core values developed from personal experience,you are at the principled level of maturity.

During a meeting,Bruce turns to you and comments,"We really shouldn't be making a decision until we have got a better handle on the facts and data.New ideas are fine,but if we can't back them up with credible and precise analysis,we shouldn't be taking the risk." Based on this comment,you recognize that Bruce is probably strongest on which dimension of cognitive style?

Terminal values prescribe desirable standards of conduct or methods for attaining an end.

The primary dimensions of cognitive style include (1)the manner in which you gather information,and (2)the way you talk about information to other people.

Results of research studies indicate that cognitive intelligence is twice as important in contributing to excellence as emotional intelligence.

You think you would like to join the Peace Corps and see the world,live in another culture,and experience new situations.Which subscale from the Tolerance of Ambiguity Scale would indicate whether you would enjoy the Peace Corps experience?

If you stole something to save a stranger's life (you received no compensation),what would be your level of moral judgment?

Communist Prison Camp To understand the development of increased self-awareness, it is helpful to consider the opposite process: the destruction of self-awareness. Understanding the growth process is often enhanced by understanding the deterioration process. In the case below, a process of psychological self-destruction is described as it occurred among prisoners of war during the Korean War. Consider how these processes that destroy self-awareness can be reversed to create greater self-awareness. The setting is a prisoner of war camp managed by the Communist Chinese. In such prisons the total regimen, consisting of physical privation, prolonged interrogation, total isolation from former relationships and sources of information, detailed regimentation of all daily activities, and deliberate humiliation and degradation, was geared to producing a confession of alleged crimes, the assumption of a penitent role, and the adoption of a Communist frame of reference. The prisoner was not informed what his crimes were, nor was he permitted to evade the issue by making up a false confession. Instead, what the prisoner learned he must do was reevaluate his past from the point of view of the Communists and recognize that most of his former attitudes and behavior were actually criminal from this point of view. A priest who had dispensed food to needy peasants in his mission church had to "recognize" that he was actually a tool of imperialism and was using his missionary activities as a cover for exploitation of the peasants. Even worse, he had used food as blackmail to accomplish his aims. The key technique used by the Communists to produce social alienation to a degree sufficient to allow such redefinition and reevaluation to occur was to put the prisoner into a cell with four or more other prisoners who were somewhat more advanced in their "thought reform" than he. Such a cell usually had one leader who was responsible to the prison authorities, and the progress of the whole cell was made contingent on the progress of the least "reformed" member. This condition meant in practice that four or more cell members devoted all their energies to getting their least "reformed" member to recognize "the truth" about himself and to confess. To accomplish this, they typically swore at, harangued, beat, denounced, humiliated, reviled, and brutalized their victim 24 hours a day, sometimes for weeks or months on end. If the authorities felt that the prisoner was basically uncooperative, they manacled his hands behind his back and chained his ankles, which made him completely dependent on his cellmates for the fulfillment of his basic needs. It was this reduction to an animal-like existence in front of other humans that constituted the ultimate humiliation and led to the destruction of the prisoner’s image of himself. Even in his own eyes he became something not worthy of the regard of his fellow man. If, to avoid complete physical and personal destruction, the prisoner began to confess in the manner desired of him, he was usually forced to prove his sincerity by making irrevocable behavioral commitments, such as denouncing and implicating his friends and relatives in his own newly recognized crimes. Once he had done this, he became further alienated from his former self, even in his own eyes, and could seek security only in a new identity and new social relationships. Aiding this process of confessing was the fact that the crimes gave the prisoner something concrete to which to attach the free-floating guilt which the accusing environment and his own humiliation usually stimulated. A good example was the plight of the sick and wounded prisoners of war who, because of their physical confinement, were unable to escape from continual conflict with their interrogator or instructor, and who often ended up forming a close relationship with him. Chinese Communist instructors often encouraged prisoners to take long walks or have informal talks with them and offered as incentives cigarettes, tea, and other rewards. If the prisoner was willing to cooperate and become a “progressive,” he could join with other “progressives” in an active group life. Within the political prison, the group cell not only provided the forces toward alienation but also offered the road to a “new self.” Not only were there available among the fellow prisoners individuals with whom the prisoner could identify because of their shared plight, but once he showed any tendency to seek a new identity by trying to reevaluate his past, he received a whole range of rewards, of which the most important was the interpersonal information that he was again a person worthy of respect and regard. -In the situation of these prisoners of war,what demonstrates that individuals tend to avoid new self-knowledge?

At the beginning of your team's first meeting,Betsy said,"I think it's really important that we develop a clear agenda for what we want to accomplish and then decide who is going to do what." Based on this comment,you suspect that Betsy is strongest on which dimension of cognitive style?

How should managers know and accept others?

Your co-worker Sandy plans her vacations 12 months in advance and is the first to volunteer to create agendas for team meetings.Which cognitive style does Sandy's behavior exhibit?

Promoting similarity among people in a work setting reduces creativity and complex problem solving.