individual differences book

Question 1

the many attributes, such as traits and behaviors, that describe each of us as a person

Answer 1

individual differences

Question 2

an individuals capacity for constructive thinking, reasoning, and problem solving

Answer 2

intelligence

Question 3

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

Answer 3

practical intelligence

Question 4

the combination of relatively stable physical, behavioral, and mental characteristics that gives individuals their unique identities

Answer 4

personality

Question 5

an attribute of someone relatively unconstrained by situational forces and who effects environmental change. proactive people identify opportunities and act on them, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs

Answer 5

proactive personality

Question 6

having a grandiose sense of self importance; requiring or even demanding excessive admiration; having a sense of entitlement ; lacking empathy; and tending to be exploitative, manipulative, arrogant

Answer 6

narcissism

Question 7

a lack of guilt, remorse or concern for others when their own actions do others harm

Answer 7

psychopathy

Question 8

a belief that the ends justify the means, maintenance of emotional distance, and use of manipulation

Answer 8

machiavellianism

Question 9

four narrow and positive individual traits

Answer 9

core self evaluations