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

_____ represent(s)a broad personality trait comprised of four narrower individual personality traits: self-esteem,generalized self-efficacy,locus of control,and emotional stability.

Jack,a manager at GenSoft,Inc.,is a naturally empathetic person.He was promoted to the post of manager because he was good at organizing,communicating,and effectively working with others.This shows that Jack would score high on _____ intelligence.

Differentiate between individuals having high and low levels of emotional stability.

While "attitudes" are global beliefs that influence behavior across all situations,"values" relate only to behavior directed towards specific objects,persons,or situations.

The _____ component of an attitude reflects the evaluation or belief one has about an object or situation.

People who believe their performance is the product of circumstances beyond their immediate control are said to possess:

A belief about one's own self-worth based on an overall self-evaluation is called:

_____ intelligence relates to the potential to learn and use spoken and written languages.

Being relaxed,secure,and unworried characterizes which of the following Big Five personality dimensions?

According to research on Big Five personality dimensions,_____ is associated with success for managers and salespeople.

Icek Ajzen and Martin Fishbein's model of the attitude-behavior process predicts all types of behavior.

When Ronnie was nominated to take on the coordinator's role in office,he said,"I'd love to take on the coordinator's role for the team,but I'm terrified of getting up in front of a group and talking." It is evident that Ronnie has a(n):

Someone scoring _____ would be nervous,tense,angry,and worried.

The Big Five personality model is both ethnocentric and unique to the culture in which it is developed.

_____ is a person's belief about his/her chances of successfully accomplishing a specific task.

Joe believes his past performance in college is due to the difficulty of courses he has taken and his bad luck in getting tough instructors.Based on this,Joe:

An action-oriented person who would show initiative and persevere until change occurs has:

_____ intelligence is the potential to live in harmony with one's environment.

Efficacy-performance cycles can spiral upward toward success or downward toward failure.

When a person agrees with the statement,"I feel I'm a person of worth,the equal of other people," he is said to have: