Exam 5: Personality and Values

Which of the following statements is true about people with positive core self-evaluations ?

Valerie Clark works as a campaigner at the Oceans Protection Foundation in Japan. During campaign implementation activities, she prefers to follow structured processes and ensures her team undertakes activities in an orderly fashion. In addition, she takes responsibility for milestones to be achieved and key project activities. Her colleagues and team members find that they can depend on her for support and guidance and admire her quality of never giving up on a challenge. Explain the categories of personalities Clark would most likely fit into according to the Myers-Briggs type indicator and the Big Five model.

According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) classification, people belonging to the ________ type are flexible and spontaneous.

Which of the following differentiates introverts from extraverts?

According to the Big Five Model, the ________ dimension addresses a range of interests and fascination with novelty.

Milton Rokeach created the Rokeach Value Survey (RVS) which consisted of two sets of values, namely ________ values and ________ values.

John Holland's personality-job fit theory presents six personality types. Which of the following is one of these six types?

According to the Big Five Model, a person who scores high on the openness to experience dimension is conventional and finds comfort in the familiar.

________ refers to bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person.

Percy Collins works as a life advisor at an insurance firm and often looks for constant admiration from his manager every time he sells a policy. He also feels that he is the best at his work and no other advisor in his company has the ability or the skills to sell the amount of policies that he can. Often during meetings and team building exercises, colleagues find him rude, distant, and antagonistic. What categories according to the Big Five Factor Model and other personality traits is Collins most likely to be characterized by?

Describe the personality characteristics of Machiavellianism.

According to John Holland's personality-job fit theory, individuals belonging to the conventional type prefer ambiguous activities that allow creative expression.

Explain characteristics of a proactive personality who is of the investigative type according to Holland's typology.

Esther Lugo has gone for an interview at an advertising firm in Manhattan and has been asked to complete a self-report survey to help interviewers understand if she is the right candidate for the job. From the interview, they have found that she is extroverted, empathic, scrupulous, and cooperative in nature, which are key characteristics needed for the job. These characteristics about Lugo indicate her ________.

According to the Big Five Model, a highly conscientious person is most likely to be ________.

Which of the following is a terminal value according to the Rokeach value survey?

Briefly describe the five key traits in the Big Five personality model.

Which of the following is a drawback of self-report surveys?

According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) classification, people belonging to the judging type prefer control and like their world to be ordered and structured.

According to the Rokeach Value Survey, ________ values refer to preferable modes of behavior.