WGU C715 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATED 2022

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WGU C715 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST IPDATED 2022 The hereditary approach states what? ✔✔An individual's personality is determined by molecular structure of genes. he... reditary ✔✔determined at time of conception Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ✔✔Most widely used personality test that includes Extroverted (E) versus Introverted (I), Sensing (S) versus Intuitive (N), Thinking (T) versus Feeling (F), Judging (J) versus Perceiving (P What is the major problem with the Myers-Briggs personality test? ✔✔It forces a person to be categorized as either one type or another. Big 5 Personality Traits ✔✔Openness, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extroversion, Emotional stability. Among all Big 5 personality traits, which one is most consistently related to job performance? ✔✔conscientiousness narcissism ✔✔The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement. Individuals scoring ________ have a strong ability to adjust their behavior to external, situational factors and can behave differently in different situations. ✔✔high on self-monitoring People with proactive personalities do what? ✔✔They are more likely than others to be seen as leaders. What is true of values? ✔✔They have content and intensity attributes. What is an instrumental value? ✔✔A method of behaviors that get you to the end result like personal discipline. What is a terminal value? ✔✔Where you are trying to end up such as social recognition. What are John Holland's six personality types? ✔✔realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional. (remember investigative) With reference to Hofstede's framework, which country scores the highest in individualism? ✔✔United States What is perception? ✔✔A process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment. What are the three factors that influence perception? ✔✔Situation, perceiver, target attributional theory ✔✔when we observe someone's behavior, we attempt to determine whether it was caused by internal or external factors. what is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic? ✔✔Intrinsic is inside you (fits the pattern) and extrinsic is outside you (breaks the pattern). dispositional attribution ✔✔attributing behavior to the person's disposition and traits (internal) situational attribution ✔✔attributing a behavior to some external cause or factor operating within the situation (an external attribution like environment) Three determinants of attributions are? ✔✔distinctiveness, consensus, and consistency What is the 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. (behavior of others) What is self-serving bias? ✔✔The tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors. (behavior of yourself) What is selective perception? ✔✔The tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis of one's interests, background, experience, and attitudes. What is the Halo effect? ✔✔The tendency to draw a general impression about an individual on the basis of a single characteristic. What is a self-fulfilling prophecy? ✔✔A si [Show More]

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