Deck 11: Asserting Yourself

Question 1

If you are easily bothered or upset by unexpected stressors and as a result exhibit a change in your demeanor and/or behavior, you likely possess the personality characteristic of

A) Conscientiousness.
B) Machiavellianism.
C) Extroversion.
D) Low emotional stability.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following statements are true?

A) Most people have three temperaments, or behavioral patterns.
B) It is possible to predicts others' behavior.
C) Personality develops as the result of nature and nurture.
D) All of the foregoing statements are true.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following statements are not true?

A) Personality changes over one's lifetime.
B) Our behavior may vary over differing circumstances.
C) Our behavior may vary in interactions with differing others.
D) Culture has no effect on personality development.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

For purposes of developing effective negotiation skills, personality is constructively defined as:

A) those behaviors that result from our genes.
B) aspects of our behavior that cannot be changed.
C) the dynamic, developing system of our distinctive emotional, cognitive, and spiritual attributes.
D) None of the above.

Question 5

Someone who is easily distracted from completing a task or regularly abandons tasks in progress may be exhibiting

A) low conscientiousness and/or a perceiving Jungian preference.
B) low emotional stability.
C) high self-monitoring.
D) None of the above.

Question 6

If it were most important that your epitaph include that you were a kind and helping person, you likely possess

A) a Type B personality.
B) low Machiavellianism.
C) a high need for affiliation.
D) a Jungian feeling preference.

Question 7

If one is right-brain dominant, one will be comfortable and adept in which of the following tasks?

A) sight-reading music and solving complex mathematical problems.
B) interior design and visuospatial processing.
C) analogous thinking and creativity.
D) learning Russian and Chinese as non-native languages.

Question 8

If you tend to become easily discouraged when presented with a demanding task, which of the following facets of personality might be explored as motivating the behavior?

A) Introversion.
B) External locus of control.
C) Internal locus of control.
D) low competitiveness.

Question 9

Which of the following personality attributes is easiest to detect in others?

A) Extroversion or Introversion.
B)
B) Cognitive processing style.
C) Sensing and Intuiting.
D) Type A or