WGU C715 ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOR OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT
EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
PASSED ALREADY GRADED A+
personality - Correct Answer ✔✔ characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
personality traits - Correct Answer ✔✔ characteristics that describe an individual's
behavior in a large number of situations
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - Correct Answer ✔✔ A personality test that taps
four characteristics and classifies Behavior
Big Five Model - Correct Answer ✔✔ A personality assessment model that taps five
basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and
neuroticism.
extraversion - Correct Answer ✔✔ A personality describing someone who is sociable
and assertive (confident and forceful )
agreeableness - Correct Answer ✔✔ A personality that describes someone who is good
natured, cooperative, and trusting.
conscientiousness - Correct Answer ✔✔ A personality that describes someone who is
responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
emotional stability - Correct Answer ✔✔ A personality that characterizes someone as
calm, self-confident, and insecure.
openness to experience - Correct Answer ✔✔ A personality that characterizes someone
in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
core self-evaluation - Correct Answer ✔✔ Bottom-line conclusions individuals have
about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person.
Machiavellianism - Correct Answer ✔✔ The degree to which an individual is pragmatic,
maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means.
narcissism - Correct Answer ✔✔ The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require
excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
,self-monitoring - Correct Answer ✔✔ where an individual's has ability to adjust his or
her behavior to external, situational factors.
proactive personality - Correct Answer ✔✔ People who identify opportunities, show
initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
values - Correct Answer ✔✔ 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.
value system - Correct Answer ✔✔ A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's
values in terms of their intensity.
terminal values - Correct Answer ✔✔ Values that we work towards (happiness, self-
respect, family security, recognition)
instrumental values - Correct Answer ✔✔ Core values that are permanent in nature
(honesty, sincerity, ambition, independence)
personality Job-fit theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ A theory that identifies six personality
types and proposes that the fit between personality type and occupational environment
determines satisfaction and turnover.
power distance - Correct Answer ✔✔ where society accepts that power in institutions
and organizations is distributed unequally.
individualism - Correct Answer ✔✔ where people prefer to act as individuals rather than
as members of groups.
collectivism - Correct Answer ✔✔ A national culture attribute that describes a tight
social framework in which people expect others in groups of which they are a part to
look after them and protect them.
masculinity - Correct Answer ✔✔ where culture favors traditional masculine work roles
of achievement, power, and control.
femininity - Correct Answer ✔✔ indicates little differentiation between male and female
roles; where women are treated as the equals of men in all aspects of the society.
uncertainty avoidance - Correct Answer ✔✔ A national culture attribute that describes
the extent to which a society feels threatened by uncertain and ambiguous situations
and tries to avoid them.
long-term orientation - Correct Answer ✔✔ A national culture attribute that emphasizes
the future, thrift, and persistence.
, short-term orientation - Correct Answer ✔✔ A national culture attribute that emphasizes
the past and present, respect for tradition, and fulfillment of social obligations. people
value the here and now; they accept change more readily and don't see commitments
as impediments to change.
heredity - Correct Answer ✔✔ factors determined at conception; one's biological,
physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.
Perception - Correct Answer ✔✔ A process by which individuals organize and interpret
their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
attribution theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ An attempt to determine whether an individual's
behavior is internally or externally caused.
fundamental attribution error - Correct Answer ✔✔ 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 - Correct Answer ✔✔ The tendency for individuals to attribute their
own successes to internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors.
selective perception - Correct Answer ✔✔ The tendency to selectively interpret what
one sees on the basis of one's interests, background, experience, and attitudes.
halo effect - Correct Answer ✔✔ The tendency to draw a general impression about an
individual on the basis of a single characteristic.
contrast effect - Correct Answer ✔✔ 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 - Correct Answer ✔✔ Judging someone on the basis of one's perception of
the group to which that person belongs.
self-fulfilling prophecy - Correct Answer ✔✔ Causing something to happen by believing
it will come true.
decisions - Correct Answer ✔✔ Choices made from among two or more alternatives.
problem - Correct Answer ✔✔ A discrepancy between the current state of affairs and
some desired state.
rational - Correct Answer ✔✔ Characterized by making consistent, value-maximizing
choices within specified constraints.
BEHAVIOR OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT
EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
PASSED ALREADY GRADED A+
personality - Correct Answer ✔✔ characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
personality traits - Correct Answer ✔✔ characteristics that describe an individual's
behavior in a large number of situations
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - Correct Answer ✔✔ A personality test that taps
four characteristics and classifies Behavior
Big Five Model - Correct Answer ✔✔ A personality assessment model that taps five
basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and
neuroticism.
extraversion - Correct Answer ✔✔ A personality describing someone who is sociable
and assertive (confident and forceful )
agreeableness - Correct Answer ✔✔ A personality that describes someone who is good
natured, cooperative, and trusting.
conscientiousness - Correct Answer ✔✔ A personality that describes someone who is
responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
emotional stability - Correct Answer ✔✔ A personality that characterizes someone as
calm, self-confident, and insecure.
openness to experience - Correct Answer ✔✔ A personality that characterizes someone
in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
core self-evaluation - Correct Answer ✔✔ Bottom-line conclusions individuals have
about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person.
Machiavellianism - Correct Answer ✔✔ The degree to which an individual is pragmatic,
maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means.
narcissism - Correct Answer ✔✔ The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require
excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
,self-monitoring - Correct Answer ✔✔ where an individual's has ability to adjust his or
her behavior to external, situational factors.
proactive personality - Correct Answer ✔✔ People who identify opportunities, show
initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
values - Correct Answer ✔✔ 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.
value system - Correct Answer ✔✔ A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's
values in terms of their intensity.
terminal values - Correct Answer ✔✔ Values that we work towards (happiness, self-
respect, family security, recognition)
instrumental values - Correct Answer ✔✔ Core values that are permanent in nature
(honesty, sincerity, ambition, independence)
personality Job-fit theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ A theory that identifies six personality
types and proposes that the fit between personality type and occupational environment
determines satisfaction and turnover.
power distance - Correct Answer ✔✔ where society accepts that power in institutions
and organizations is distributed unequally.
individualism - Correct Answer ✔✔ where people prefer to act as individuals rather than
as members of groups.
collectivism - Correct Answer ✔✔ A national culture attribute that describes a tight
social framework in which people expect others in groups of which they are a part to
look after them and protect them.
masculinity - Correct Answer ✔✔ where culture favors traditional masculine work roles
of achievement, power, and control.
femininity - Correct Answer ✔✔ indicates little differentiation between male and female
roles; where women are treated as the equals of men in all aspects of the society.
uncertainty avoidance - Correct Answer ✔✔ A national culture attribute that describes
the extent to which a society feels threatened by uncertain and ambiguous situations
and tries to avoid them.
long-term orientation - Correct Answer ✔✔ A national culture attribute that emphasizes
the future, thrift, and persistence.
, short-term orientation - Correct Answer ✔✔ A national culture attribute that emphasizes
the past and present, respect for tradition, and fulfillment of social obligations. people
value the here and now; they accept change more readily and don't see commitments
as impediments to change.
heredity - Correct Answer ✔✔ factors determined at conception; one's biological,
physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.
Perception - Correct Answer ✔✔ A process by which individuals organize and interpret
their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
attribution theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ An attempt to determine whether an individual's
behavior is internally or externally caused.
fundamental attribution error - Correct Answer ✔✔ 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 - Correct Answer ✔✔ The tendency for individuals to attribute their
own successes to internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors.
selective perception - Correct Answer ✔✔ The tendency to selectively interpret what
one sees on the basis of one's interests, background, experience, and attitudes.
halo effect - Correct Answer ✔✔ The tendency to draw a general impression about an
individual on the basis of a single characteristic.
contrast effect - Correct Answer ✔✔ 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 - Correct Answer ✔✔ Judging someone on the basis of one's perception of
the group to which that person belongs.
self-fulfilling prophecy - Correct Answer ✔✔ Causing something to happen by believing
it will come true.
decisions - Correct Answer ✔✔ Choices made from among two or more alternatives.
problem - Correct Answer ✔✔ A discrepancy between the current state of affairs and
some desired state.
rational - Correct Answer ✔✔ Characterized by making consistent, value-maximizing
choices within specified constraints.
