Deck 3: Individual Differences and Emotions

Question 1

Many effective managers select employees based on positive, job relevant, relatively stable individual differences.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The ability to solve everyday problems by utilizing knowledge gained from experience to purposefully adapt to, shape, and select environments is known as emotional intelligence.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The combination of stable physical, behavioral, and mental characteristics that give individuals their unique identities is known as personality.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

"Practical intelligence" is very similar to logical-mathematical intelligence.

Question 5

The average intelligence among people in developed countries has risen over the past 70 years.

Question 6

Openness to experience refers to a person being trusting and good-natured.

Question 7

Managers can help employees manage their attitudes and emotions.

Question 8

An individual's capacity for constructive thinking, reasoning, and problem solving is known as naturalist intelligence.

Question 9

Intelligence and mental ability are unrelated to work performance.

Question 10

Attitudes are a category of relatively fixed individual differences.

Question 11

The Big Five personality dimensions include emotional stability and Type A behavior.

Question 12

Gardner's work suggested that individuals actually demonstrate eight forms of intelligence.

Question 13

Individual differences such as personality influence an individual's work outcomes.

Question 14

A proactive personality is someone who is relatively unconstrained by situational forces and who affects environmental change.

Question 15

A person who is relaxed, secure, and unworried is referred to as an extrovert.

Question 16

The potential to recognize and use patterns is known as linguistic intelligence.

Question 17

Intelligence and mental abilities are relatively stable over time and across situations, and are difficult to change.

Question 18

When hiring people, the best thing a manager can do is to find someone like him/herself and make sure the person "fits" into his or her stereotype of a good worker.

Question 19

Organizations should use selection based on attitudes and emotions to choose which employees to hire.

Question 20

Personality models are unique to the cultures in which they were developed.

Question 21

Of the Big Five personality dimensions, agreeableness has been shown to be the best predictor of job performance.

Question 22

To help an employee with low self-efficacy, a manager should set very challenging goals.

Question 23

As emotional stability reaches very high levels, organizational citizenship behaviors decline.

Question 24

Proactive people show initiative.

Question 25

The most potent of the causes of our self-efficacy beliefs is our prior experience.

Question 26

The model of self-efficacy contains a feedback loop that represents the effect of our successes or failures for future self-efficacy beliefs.

Question 27

Persons with an internal locus of control believe their performance is a product of circumstances beyond their immediate control.

Question 28

A recent study by the Aberdeen Group found that most companies use some form of pre- or post-hiring personality testing.

Question 29

CSEs are related to reduced conflict and lower stress.

Question 30

Proactive personalities tend to have higher satisfaction with and commitment to their organizations.

Question 31

Your physical and/or emotional state is the strongest predictor of your self-efficacy beliefs.

Question 32

People with low emotional stability handle pressure better.

Question 33

Managers are not encouraged to nurture self-efficacy in subordinates, because doing so raises subordinates' expectations about their importance to the organization.

Question 34

Self-efficacy beliefs are surface convictions supported by the most recent experiences a person has gone through.

Question 35

Self-efficacy is your general belief about your own self-worth.

Question 36

If you have a high self-efficacy belief, you are likely to work less hard in preparation for challenges because you are confident you can succeed.

Question 37

Managers are encouraged to nurture self-efficacy in themselves.

Question 38

Research in industrial-organizational psychology concluded that the typical personality test is not a valid predictor of job performance.

Question 39

Proactive people are more likely to be entrepreneurial.

Question 40

Core self-evaluations are related to increased job performance, job satisfaction, and motivation.

Question 41

The ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions is known as emotional stability.

Question 42

Complex, relatively brief responses aimed at a particular target are known as attitudes.

Question 43

Keyshawn is a player on a professional football team. Because of this, his play every week is scrutinized by fans and media, as well as his own coaches. Sometimes, their comments are very negative and even personal. Keyshawn will handle this better if he has a high level of _________ intelligence.

A) Naturalist
B) Bodily-kinesthetic
C) Spatial
D) Interpersonal
E) Intrapersonal

Question 44

Josephine scored very high on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) on all three parts. She is likely to possess high ________ intelligence.

A) Naturalist
B) Practical
C) Logical-mathematical
D) Musical
E) Bodily-kinesthetic

Question 45

The ability to solve everyday problems by utilizing knowledge gained from experience in order to purposefully adapt to, shape, and select environments is called:

A) Multiple intelligence
B) Cognitive intelligence
C) Practical intelligence
D) Spatial intelligence
E) Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence

Question 46

You can control your behavior much more than your personality.

Question 47

_____ represent(s) an individual's capacity for constructive thinking, reasoning, and problem solving.

A) Intelligence
B) Emotion
C) Attitudes
D) Self-esteem
E) Self-efficacy

Question 48

The idea of "deliberate practice" is that takes 10,000 hours of practice to become really good at something.

Question 49

Star athletes are likely to be high in:

A) Spatial intelligence
B) Linguistic intelligence
C) Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
D) Naturalist intelligence
E) Musical intelligence

Question 50

Emotional intelligence is composed of two components: internal and external.

Question 51

Naturalist intelligence is:

A) The potential to live in harmony with one's environment
B) The potential for deductive reasoning, problem analysis, and mathematical calculation
C) The same as intrapersonal intelligence
D) The potential to use mind and body to coordinate physical movement
E) The potential to recognize and use patterns

Question 52

Negative emotions are said to be goal incongruent.

Question 53

It makes sense for managers and organizations to hire people based on their:

A) Attitudes
B) Emotions
C) Cognitive abilities
D) Self-esteem
E) Locus of control

Question 54

The potential to learn and use spoken and written languages is:

A) Spatial intelligence
B) Naturalist intelligence
C) Intrapersonal intelligence
D) Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
E) Linguistic intelligence

Question 55

Performance on tests like the Scholastic Aptitude Test and the Graduate Management Admissions Test is likely to be most closely related to:

A) Naturalist intelligence
B) Interpersonal intelligence
C) Intrapersonal intelligence
D) Spatial intelligence
E) Logical-mathematical intelligence

Question 56

Which of the following is the least fixed of a person's individual differences?

A) Attitudes
B) Intelligence
C) Cognitive abilities
D) Self-esteem
E) Emotions

Question 57

The distinction between flexible and fixed individual differences:

A) Has no practical value for managers
B) Is that managers have little or no impact on fixed differences
C) Is that managers have little or no impact on flexible differences
D) Is that managers should hire people based on their attitudes and emotions
E) Is that managers have little or no impact on any individual differences

Question 58

Jonathan speaks four languages fluently. He is likely to have a high level of _______ intelligence.

A) Naturalist
B) Linguistic
C) Multiple
D) Emotional
E) Interpersonal

Question 59

The potential to understand and regulate oneself is known as:

A) Interpersonal intelligence
B) Kinesthetic intelligence
C) Intrapersonal intelligence
D) Naturalist intelligence
E) Linguistic intelligence

Question 60

Emotional intelligence has been demonstrated by research to be strongly correlated with leadership and job performance.

Question 61

Core self-evaluations represent a broad personality trait comprised of all but one of the following. Which one?

A) Emotional stability
B) Generalized self-efficacy
C) Locus of control
D) Proactivity
E) Self-esteem

Question 62

The combination of stable physical, behavioral, and mental characteristics that gives individuals their unique identity is known as:

A) Intelligence
B) Personality
C) Their value profile
D) Self-efficacy
E) Self-esteem

Question 63

People who are dependable, responsible, and achievement-oriented are likely to score high on:

A) Openness to experience
B) Introversion
C) Conscientiousness
D) Internal locus of control
E) Agreeableness

Question 64

____________ is associated with entrepreneurialism.

A) Introversion
B) Spatial intelligence
C) Openness to experience
D) Proactivity
E) Emotional stability

Question 65

Proactivity has been shown to be related to all but one of the following. Which one?

A) Social networking
B) Intelligence
C) Performance
D) Satisfaction
E) Affective organizational commitment

Question 66

Most entrepreneurs:

A) Think luck had no role in the success of their venture
B) Were in their twenties
C) Have bachelor's degrees
D) Were unmarried when they started their business
E) Come from extremely rich or extremely poor backgrounds

Question 67

Klaus works in a very stressful job, but maintains his "cool" even in the worst times. He is likely to score high on ________.

A) Extraversion
B) Agreeableness
C) Conscientiousness
D) Emotional stability
E) Openness to experience

Question 68

Which of the following is not one of the basic dimensions of the Big Five personality dimensions?

A) Emotional intelligence
B) Extraversion
C) Openness to experience
D) Conscientiousness
E) Agreeableness

Question 69

People who are relaxed, secure, and unworried are likely to score high on:

A) Emotional stability
B) Introversion
C) Conscientiousness
D) Internal locus of control
E) Agreeableness

Question 70

The personality trait with the strongest positive relationship with job performance is:

A) Extraversion
B) Emotional stability
C) Proactivity
D) Agreeableness
E) Conscientiousness

Question 71

People who are outgoing, talkative, sociable, and assertive are likely to score high on:

A) Emotional stability
B) Agreeableness
C) Extraversion
D) Openness to experience
E) Conscientiousness

Question 72

Marisa is office manager in a small company. Her employees find that they can often come late to work and leave early, and Marisa will cover their work for them. Marisa is likely to score:

A) High on extraversion
B) High on agreeableness
C) Low on conscientiousness
D) Low on emotional stability
E) Low on openness to experience

Question 73

Regarding using personality testing as part of the hiring process, experts have concluded that:

A) Only the Big Five should be used as predictors of job performance
B) The typical personality test is not a valid predictor of job performance
C) There are many valid instruments available to managers to test for personality types
D) The effects of personality on job performance are so large it cannot be ignored by managers
E) There is not enough evidence to draw any conclusions about personality testing

Question 74

People with high _________ see themselves as capable and effective.

A) Core self-evaluations
B) Emotional intelligence
C) Introversion
D) Extraversion
E) Openness to experience

Question 75

Mike hosts a talk radio program that discusses political issues. He often receives emails and tweets that are very critical of his positions. However, these messages don't bother him. It is likely that he is high on _______ intelligence.

A) Intrapersonal
B) Naturalist
C) Practical
D) Linguistic
E) Multiple

Question 76

Someone who is relatively unconstrained by situational forces and who effects environmental change is described as:

A) An extravert
B) A proactive personality
C) Conscientious and emotionally stable
D) Emotionally intelligent
E) Having an external locus of control

Question 77

___________ is associated with success for managers and salespeople.

A) Extraversion
B) Introversion
C) Agreeableness
D) Emotional stability
E) Openness to experience

Question 78

People who are high on openness to experience are likely to demonstrate:

A) Cooperation and softheartedness
B) Lack of worry
C) An outgoing and sociable orientation
D) Curiosity and broad-mindedness
E) Achievement orientation

Question 79

Samantha, a member of a team you are assigned to for a management class, has often been late getting her work to the team, and when it arrives it is often of poor quality. Samantha is likely to be displaying her ________.

A) Low agreeableness
B) High extraversion
C) Low conscientiousness
D) Low emotional stability
E) Low proactivity

Question 80

Halim, one of your employees, always seems to be "taking it easy," often ignores problems that arise, and rarely takes action on his own. It is likely that Halim is:

A) Low on practical intelligence
B) An introvert
C) Not a proactive personality
D) Emotionally unstable
E) Highly agreeable