第四章练习题目

Chapter 4 Personality and Values

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Which of the following statements about personality is correct?

a. Personality is always stable.

b. Personality is a part of a person.

c. Personality is an aggregate whole.

d. Personality is for the most part comprised of traits that cannot be measured.

e. Personality is the primary source of emotions in most people.

2. If personality characteristics were completely dictated by _____, they would be fixed at birth and

no amount of experience could alter them.

a. job satisfaction

b. heredity

c. environment

d. situations

e. religion

5. All of the following are classifications on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator except _____.

a. extroverted/introverted

b. sensing/intuitive

c. perceiving/judging

d. independent/dependent

e. thinking/feeling

6. What is the major problem with the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator as a measure of personality?

a. it is very difficult to administer

b. it forces a person to be categorized as either one type or another

c. it does not include enough dimensions to differentiate all the variety of human personality

d. it tends to overemphasize intuitive personality traits over analytical personality traits

e. it is very difficult to accurately interpret

8. A high score in which dimension of the Big Five model predicts good job performance for all

occupational groups?

a. extraversion

b. agreeableness

c. conscientiousness

d. emotional stability

e. openness to experience

11. Holland’s theory of personality-job fit argues that job satisfaction is highest and turnover lowest

where _____.

a. personality and occupation are in agreement

b. an individual is highly motivated

c. salary is high

d. felt emotions are displayed

e. compensation is high

13. What is the term used for the degree to which people like or dislike themselves?

a. Self-esteem

b. Authoritarianism

c. Locus of control

d. Machiavellianism

e. Efficacy

14. What personality characteristic centers on whether a person is unemotional, pragmatic and

believes that ends can justify means?

a. authoritarianism

b. Machiavellianism

c. Type A personality

d. risk-taking

e. Narcissism

16. Which of the following has the highest intrinsic risk-taking propensity?

a. an accountant performing auditing activities

b. a stock trader in a brokerage firm

c. a computer technologist

d. a marketing representative

e. a school crossing guard

21. Which of the following is the most powerful determinant of the dominant personality

characteristics of a country’s population?

a. the country’s political system

b. the co untry’s culture

c. the values held by that population

d. the country’s legal system

e. the country’s gender distribution

22. Which of the following terms describes basic convictions that “a specific mode of conduct or end

state of existence is personal ly or socially preferable to an opposite mode of conduct.”

a. Values

b. Attitudes

c. Convictions

d. Preferences

e. Affectual preferences

23. When we rank an individual’s values in order of their _____, we obtain the person’s value system.

a. intensity

b. content

c. context

d. social acceptance

e. social needs

24. Which of the following statements about values is true?

a. Values are flexible.

b. Values are synonymous with attitudes.

c. Values tend to be consistent among occupational groups.

d. Values are fairly stable over tim

e.

e. Values change easily when they are called into question.

27. Which of the following terminal values was ranked as the most important by executives?

a. family security