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Definition of Personality

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the structures and propensities inside people that explain their typical patterns of thought emotion, and behaviour.

Captures what people are like

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Definition of Traits?

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are defined as recurring regularities or trends in people’s responses to their environment.

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Define cultural values?

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are defined as shared beliefs about desirable end states or modes of conduct in a given culture.

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Does cultural values influence development of people personality traits as well as how those traits are expressed in daily life

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True

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Define Ability?

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Refer to the relatively stable capabilities people have to perform a particular range of different but related activities

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Abilities fluctuates. T or F?

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False. Ability is relatively stable

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Ability is the function of both ____ and ___? and plays a vital role in Cognitive abilities.

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genes, environment

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What 3 factors if the environment affect cognitive ability?

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  1. Quality of schooling
  2. Choice of occupation
  3. Biological factors
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Define Cognitive ability?

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ability refers to capabilities related to the acquisition and application of knowledge in problem solving.

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What are the 5 type and facets of cognitive ability?

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  1. Verbal
  2. Quantitative
  3. Reasoning
  4. Spatial
  5. Perceptual
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List two verbal facet

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Oral and written comprehension

Oral and written expression

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List two quantitative facet

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  1. Number facility
  2. Mathematical Reasoning
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List 4 reasoning facets

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Problem sensitivity
Inductive reasoning
Deductive reasoning
Originality

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List 2 spatial facets

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Spatial orientation
Visualization

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List two Perceptual

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Speed and flexibility of closure
Perceptual speed

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Define verbal ability

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refers to various capabilities associated with understanding and expressing oral and written communication.

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Define Reasoning ability

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is actually a diverse set of abilities associated with sensing and solving problems using insight, rules, and logic

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Define Spatial Ability

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or capabilities associated with visual and mental representation and manipulation of objects in space

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Perceptual ability

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refers to being able to perceive, understand, and recall patterns of information

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What does this mean “closure refers to being able to pick out a pattern of information quickly in the presence of distracting information, even without all the information present.”

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Speed and flexibility

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People who are low on verbal abilities abilities also tend to be high on reasoning, quantitative, spatial, and perceptual abilities

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False. People who are high on verbal abilities also tend to be high on reasoning, quantitative, spatial, and perceptual abilities, and people who are low on verbal abilities tend to be low on the other abilities.

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What does General Cognitive ability mean?

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factor”-that underlies or causes all of the more specific cognitive abilities we have discussed so far

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Why do 5 overlap?

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This overlap exists because each of the specific abilities depends somewhat on the brain’s ability to process information effectively.

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Emotional Intelligence

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defined in terms of a set of distinct but related abilities, which we describe next.

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List the 4 types of emotional awareness
Self awareness Other Awareness Emotion regulation Use of emotion
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Define Self awareness
the appraisal and expression of emotions in oneself. To understand experience, willing to acknowledge, and capability to express.
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Other Awareness
or the appraisal and recognition of emotion in others.
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Emotion Regulation
refers to being able to recover quickly from emotional experiences.
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Define use of emotion
This capability reflects the degree to which people can harness emotions and employ them to improve their chances of being successful in whatever they are seeking to do.
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If you have low cognitive intelligence nothing can compensate for it?
FASLE. high emotional intelligence can compensate somewhat for low cognitive intelligence.
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Emotional intelligence is correlated positively with behaviours that are more_____?
Counterproductive nature
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What are the 5 type of physical ability?
1. Strength 2. Stamina 3. Flexibility and coordination 4. Psychomotor 5. Sensory
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3 branches Strength
1. Static 2. Explosive 3. Dynamic
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4 branches Flexibility and coordination
1. Extent flexibility 2. Dynamic flexibility (speed) 3. Gross body coordination 4. Gross body equilibrium
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4 branches psychomotor
1. Fine manipulative abilities 2. Control movement abilities 3. Response orientation 4. Response time
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7 branches of sensory
1. Near and far vision 2. Night vision 3. Visual colour discrimination 4. Depth perception 5. Hearing Sensitivity 6. Auditory attention 7. Speech recognition
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What are the Big 5?
Conscientiousness Agreeableness Neuroticism Openness Extraversion
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What 6 trait fall under Conscientiousness?
Dependable Organized Reliable Ambitious Hardworking perserving
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What 6 trait fall under Agreeableness?
Kind cooperative Sympathetic Helpful Courteous Warm
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What 6 trait fall under Neuroticism?
Nervous Moody Emotional Insecure Jealous Unstable
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What 6 trait fall under openness
Curious Imaginative creative complex refined sophisticated
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What 6 trait fall under extraversion
Talkative Sociable Passionate Assertive Bold Dominant
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What do conscientious employee prioritize?
Accomplishment striving
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What do agreeable employee prioritize?
Communion Striving: a strong desire to obtain acceptance in personal relationships as a means of expressing personality.
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Extraversion is easy to judge in____?
Zero acquaintance situation (Two people just met)
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Extraversion employee prioritize?
Status Striving: reflects a strong desire to obtain power and influence within a social structure as a means of expressing personality
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People day to day mood can be catergorized along what two dimensions?
Pleasantness and activation
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Neuroticism is synonymous with___
Negative affectivity
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Neuroticism is strongly related to__
Locus control: which reflects whether people attribute the causes of events to themselves or to the external environment.
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Define internal locus of control?
meaning that they believe that their own behaviour dictates events.
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Define external locus?
Believe things happen because of other factors and outside forces
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Internal locus is associated with higher levels of job satisfaction and job performance. T or F?
T
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Define Culture
as the shared values, beliefs, motives, identities, and interpretations that result from common experiences of members of a society and are transmitted across generations.
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What are the 5 Hofstede dimension of cultural values?
Individualistic vs Collectivistic Power distance Uncertainty avoidance Masculinity - Feminine Short-term oriented vs longterm oriented
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Neuroticism reflects the tendency to experience negative moods and emotion frequently on a day to day basis
True
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Most fundamental way of differentiating culture?
Individualism vs Collectivism
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What does Ethnocentrism?
Defined as propensity to view ones own cultureal values as "right: and those of other culture "Wrong"
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Collectivists exhibit higher level of __ and __ . And lower level of___ and ___
Task performance and citizenship behaviour Counterproductive and withdrawal
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Collectivist also more likely to feel ___ and __ committed to employers than individualists.
Affectively and normatively
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Of big 5 which one strongest effect on task performance?
Conscientious
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Conscientious employee engage in___ and less likely to____ and tend to be____
Citizenship behaviour Counterproductive behaviour Committed to their organization
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Describe situational strength and weak situational strength
strong situations have clear behavioural expectations, incentives, or instructions that make differences between individuals less important, whereas " weak situations" lack those cues.
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Cognitive ability tends to be more strongly correlated with ___ than citizenship behaviour or counterproductive
Task performance
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Define trait activation
Suggest that some situation provide cues that trigger the expression of a given trait
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conscientiousness is a key driver of what's referred to as_____, which reflects performance in the routine condition that surrounded daily job tasks
Typical performance
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employee's ability, in contrast, is a key driver of ________ which reflects performance in brief, special circumstances that demand a person's best effort.
Maximum performance

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