Deck 5: Personality, Intelligence, Attitudes, and Emotions

Question 1

Personality traits are relatively enduring.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

A recent survey found that over 30 percent of employers use some form of personality test to hire employees.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Ideal occupations for introverts would be in the field of sales and management.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Temperament in the early weeks of life was found to have no effect on personality later in life.

Question 5

Personality traits are major determinants of one's behavior.

Question 6

Researchers typically believe that 50 percent of adult personality is genetically determined.

Question 7

Extraversion is the degree to which a person is shy and prefers to be alone than with other individuals.

Question 8

Extraverts might have a slight edge over introverts in occupations that involve teamwork.

Question 9

Research suggests that personality is very unstable in the adult years.

Question 10

The concept of emotion is considered to be an individual difference.

Question 11

Using the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) to screen employees has reduced employee turnover, improved productivity, decreased lost time, and increased sales in some companies.

Question 12

Conscientious is the degree to which a person focuses on goals and works toward them in a disciplined way.

Question 13

Personality traits influence one's behavior across only a specific set of situations.

Question 14

Research indicates that extraversion is positively correlated with job satisfaction.

Question 15

Fraternal twin studies are commonly used to understand the role biology plays in our personality development.

Question 16

Extraverts derive their energy from being around other individuals.

Question 17

Ideal occupations for extraverts would be in the field of accounting and engineering.

Question 18

Temperament is a stable set of characteristics representing internal properties of an individual, which are reflected in behavioral tendencies across a variety of situations.

Question 19

Individuals scoring low on conscientiousness, research shows, have a slight edge in most occupations and tend to perform well on teams.

Question 20

Personality, intelligence, and gender are individual differences.

Question 21

Research shows that conscientiousness has a stronger positive effect on job performance when the person also scores high on agreeableness.

Question 22

People who score high on authoritarianism believe that status and the use of power in organizations is improper.

Question 23

People who have an "external locus of control" believe that what happens to them is more a matter of luck than anything else.

Question 24

Individuals who score high on the trait "Openness" are well suited for careers involving creativity and vision, such as advertising and marketing.

Question 25

Managers' competencies in developing, delegating and motivating others are enhanced by high extraversion, high conscientiousness and high emotional stability.

Question 26

Approval motivation is not related to the concept of conformity.

Question 27

Individuals who score high on the trait "Openness" are well suited for jobs calling for strong adherence to the rules, such as piloting airplanes and accounting.

Question 28

People who are low self-monitors tend to follow this advice: "To thine own self be true."

Question 29

An individual who scores high on emotional stability is relaxed, slow to feel anger, and rarely becomes discouraged.

Question 30

When teams must make important decisions and solve nonroutine problems, having some individuals with lower scores on agreeableness, on the team, may be an advantage.

Question 31

Persons with a high need for achievement set their goals and tend to not accept responsibility for their failures.

Question 32

People who believe that they have control over events are said to have "internal" locus of control.

Question 33

The concept of "locus of control" refers to a person's tendency to attribute the cause or control of events to herself or to factors in the external environment.

Question 34

People who have an "internal locus of control" are more likely to engage in activities requiring very little skill.

Question 35

People with a high need for achievement are less likely to procrastinate than people with a low need for achievement.

Question 36

People who score high on authoritarianism believe in unconventional values and disobedience to authority figures.

Question 37

The trait of emotional stability relates to how a person copes with stressful situations or heavy demands.

Question 38

Individuals with a high social dominance orientation (SDO) believe their own groups to be superior and dominant over other "outgroups."

Question 39

Individuals with a high social dominance orientation (SDO) are more likely to act fairly toward job applicants from different demographic groups.

Question 40

Self-monitoring is the degree to which an individual attempts to present the image he or she thinks others want to see in a given situation.

Question 41

Attitudes are made of up three components--cognitive, affective, and behavioral.

Question 42

Television and radio are common forms of persuasive communication.

Question 43

The practice of testing general intelligence has been a fixture of the National Football League (NFL) since the early 1970s.

Question 44

Attitudes can influence our actions.

Question 45

As a determinant of workplace performance and career success, general intelligence has been found to be just as important in jobs requiring manual labor as it has in jobs requiring complex information processing.

Question 46

Attitudes are innate and not formed through the learning process.

Question 47

Intelligence and cognitive ability are commonly referred to as the same trait.

Question 48

It is always very easy to distinguish between an individual's personality and their attitude.

Question 49

Attitudes are very unstable entities.

Question 50

An attitude is defined as a temporary mental state of readiness to feel and behave in a favorable or unfavorable way toward a specific person, object or idea.

Question 51

Influencing people through the foot-in-the-door technique is based on the self-perception effect.

Question 52

Attitudes can be directed toward objects or persons.

Question 53

Affective commitment, normative commitment, and continuance commitment are three types of employee commitment to an organization.

Question 54

General intelligence has been found to be an important determinant of workplace performance and career success.

Question 55

The balance theory and the congruity theory are important theories that lead to an understanding of attitude consistency.

Question 56

Organizational commitment is positively related to employee motivation.

Question 57

When an individual forms an attitude based on a simple observation of another's behavior this is called the self-perception effect.

Question 58

Intelligence refers to the ability to develop and understand concepts, particularly more complex and abstract concepts.

Question 59

People may form attitudes based on simple observations of their own behaviors.

Question 60

The two most thoroughly examined attitudes in strategic OB are job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior.

Question 61

The persuasive communication approach to attitude change consists of ten elements.

Question 62

_______is the degree to which an individual is outgoing and derives energy from being around other people.

Question 63

Emotional intelligence is usually linked only to career success in counseling and sales.

Question 64

When an individual behaves in a way that is inconsistent with his or her attitude he or she may feel cognitive dissonance.

Question 65

Many current personality researchers believe the dimension of ___________ has the greatest effect of all personality dimensions on a host of outcomes in the workplace.

Question 66

_______________ are four individual differences that this chapter explores.

Question 67

A recent survey found that over 30 percent of employers use some form of _____test to hire employees.

Question 68

The personality concept of __________refers to a person's tendency to attribute the cause or control of events either to herself or to factors in the external environment.

Question 69

A recent survey by the Conference Board found that a major reason for job dissatisfaction was that respondents thought their jobs were uninteresting.

Question 70

___________is a stable set of characteristics representing the internal properties of an individual, which are reflected in behavioral tendencies across a variety of situations.

Question 71

_________________relates to how a person copes with stressful situations or heavy demands.

Question 72

Emotions are a simple reaction that have both a physical and mental component.

Question 73

Teaching others how to acquire the abilities associated with emotional intelligence has been the subject of many management development programs and popular books.

Question 74

Emotional contagion occurs when emotions experienced by one or a few members of a work group spread to other members.

Question 75

Personality traits are relatively ________.

Question 76

Using the ______________ to screen employees has reduced employee turnover, improved productivity, decreased lost time, and increased sales in some companies.

Question 77

EI is known as Emotional Instability.

Question 78

The original research on ____________began as an effort to identify people who might be susceptible to anti-Semitic ideologies.

Question 79

People who have high EI are very self-aware and self-regulate themselves well.

Question 80

Personality traits are major determinants of one's_________.