1.

_____ is the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts
with others.
Your Answer: Personality
2.
_____ refers to those factors that were determined at conception.
Your Answer: Heredity
3.
Genetics account for approximately _____ of the variation in occupational
interests.
Your Answer: 30 percent
4.
_____ are enduring characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
Your Answer: Personality traits
5.
The _____ is the most popular typology of personality traits.
Your Answer: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
6.
_____is the degree to which individuals like or dislike themselves, whether they
see themselves as capable and effective, and whether they feel they are in
control of their environment.
Your Answer: Job satisfaction
Correct Answer: Core self-evaluation

People who have positive core self-evaluations like themselves, see themselves
as effective, capable, and in control of their environment.
7.
_____ is the tendency to be pragmatic, emotionally distant, and exploitative.
Your Answer: Low self-esteem
Correct Answer: Machiavellianism

Machiavellianism is the tendency to be pragmatic, emotionally distant, and
exploitative. The personality characteristic of Machiavellianism is named after
Niccolo Machiavelli, a sixteenth century writer.
8.
_____ refers to the tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of
self-importance, require excessive self-admiration, and have a sense of
entitlement.
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8.
_____ refers to the tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of
self-importance, require excessive self-admiration, and have a sense of
entitlement.
Your Answer: Narcissism
9.
An individual who is able to adjust his/her behavior to external factors is a high
_____.
Your Answer: self-monitor
10.
Those who have a _____ personality are perpetually involved in a struggle to do
more and more activities in less time.
Your Answer: Type A
11.
The value attribute that specifies importance is known as ____.
Your Answer: intensity
12.
The _____ survey measures instrumental and terminal values.
Your Answer: Hurley-Martin
Correct Answer: Rokeach

The Rokeach survey measures instrumental and terminal values. This survey is
useful in understanding differences in values between groups.
13.
Workers who entered the workforce in the 1950s and 1960s are called _____.
Your Answer: Nexters
Correct Answer: Veterans

The term Veterans refers to those who entered the workforce during the 1950's
and 1960's. They believe in hard work, the status quo, and authority figures.
14.
Gender differentiation measures _____
Your Answer: the extent to which a society maximizes gender role
differences.
15.
John Holland is associated with the _____.
Your Answer: Dutch National Program
Correct Answer: Vocational Preference Inventory
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15.
Your Answer: Dutch National Program
Correct Answer: Vocational Preference Inventory

John Holland is associated with the Vocational Preference Inventory. According
to Holland, satisfaction is highest and turnover is lowest when personality and
occupation are in agreement.
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