Exam 5: Appreciating Individual Differences: Intelligence, ability, personality, core Self-Evaluations, attitudes, and Emotions

Research has proved that intelligence is an innate capacity,passed genetically from one generation to the next.

Research reveals that of the Big Five personality dimensions,conscientiousness has the strongest positive correlation with job performance.

_____ are complex human reactions to personal achievements and setbacks that may be felt and displayed.

What is cognitive dissonance? According to social psychologist Leon Festinger,what are the three methods of reducing dissonance?

What are the Big Five personality dimensions? Which of these has the strongest positive correlation to job performance and training performance?

Explain the likely reasons why certain personality characteristics seem to be related to different types of job performance and behavior.

Joy enjoys solving puzzles and is very interested in knowing how things work.He loves playing with numbers and thinks things through in a rational,systematic manner.Which of the following intelligences,as described by Howard Gardner,does Joy possess?

_____ is measured by having survey respondents indicate their agreement or disagreement with both positive and negative statements about their own selves.

According to a meta-analysis involving subjects from many professions,among the Big Five,which dimension had the strongest positive correlation with job performance and training performance?

Low self-efficacy is associated with a condition called ____,the severely debilitating belief that one has no control over one's environment.

How can core self-evaluations (CSE)be used by managers?

Betty,a manager for Oil Traders,Inc.,has been offered a promotion.She has the option of deciding which country she will work in.Her preference is to work in a culture where the correlation between self-esteem and life satisfaction is not strong.Based on what research tells us,which of the following countries should Betty choose?

Which of the following abilities did psychologist Charles Spearman label as "G"?

Core self-evaluations represent a broad personality trait comprised of four narrower individual personality traits: self-esteem,generalized self-efficacy,locus of control,and:

Anthony received an "A" on the final exam of Organizational Behavior.When asked by his roommate how he managed to pull an "A" on the final,he replied,"I'm just lucky." Anthony can be described as having:

Someone scoring negatively on extraversion would be prone to shyness and withdrawn behavior.

Differentiate between self-esteem and self-efficacy.

Over the last 70 years,the intelligence scores of people in developed countries have shown a steady and significant decline.

Low self-esteem can be raised more by having the person think of desirable characteristics possessed rather than of undesirable characteristics from which he/she is free.

Unlike self-esteem,self-efficacy cannot be enhanced through training.