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C715 WGU Questions and Answers Latest Updated 2022 Graded A PERSONALITY ✔✔a complex set of characteristics that makes you unique HEREDITY ✔✔factors determined at conception MYERS-BRIGGS TY ... PE INDICATOR ✔✔the most widely used personality assessment in the world. includes scales on introversion/extroversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY MODEL ✔✔personality typing instrument which includes extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness to experience Machiavellianism ✔✔the degree to which an individual's pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes the end justifies the means NARCISSM ✔✔the tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement SELF-MONITORING ✔✔A personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors. PROACTIVE PERSONALITY ✔✔people identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs. VALUES ✔✔basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence TERMINAL VALUES ✔✔desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime INSTRUMENTAL VALUES ✔✔preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values POWER DISTANCE ✔✔a national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally PERCEPTION ✔✔a process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment ATTRIBUTION THEORY ✔✔an attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is internally or externally caused FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR ✔✔the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others SELF-SERVING BIAS ✔✔the tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors SELECTIVE PERCEPTION ✔✔the tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis of one's interests, background, experience, and attitude HALO EFFECT ✔✔the tendency to draw a general impression about an individual on the basis of a single characteristic CONTRAST EFFECT ✔✔evaluation of a person's characteristics that is affected by comparisons with other people recently encountered who rank higher or lower on the same characteristics STEREOTYPING ✔✔judging someone on the basis of one's perception of the group to which it belongs SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY ✔✔a situation in which a person inaccurately perceives a second person, and the resulting expectations cause the second person to behave in ways consistent with the original perception RATIONAL DECISION-MAKING MODEL ✔✔a decision-making model that describes how individuals should behave in order to maximize some outcomes BOUNDED RATIONALITY ✔✔a process of making decisions by constructing simplified models that the essential features from problems without capturing all their complexity INTUITION DECISION-MAKING ✔✔an unconscious process distilled out of distilled experience ANCHORING BIAS ✔✔a tendency to fixate o [Show More]

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