WGU C715 Organizational
Behavior Exam (Latest 2024/2025)
Questions and Verified Answers |
100% Correct | Graded A+
Personality - Answer - characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
Personality traits - Answer - characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a large
number of situations
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - Answer - A personality test that taps four characteristics
and classifies Behavior
Big Five Model - Answer - A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions.
extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
extraversion - Answer - A personality describing someone who is sociable and assertive
(confident and forceful )
agreeableness - Answer - A personality that describes someone who is good natured,
cooperative, and trusting.
conscientiousness - Answer - A personality that describes someone who is responsible,
dependable, persistent, and organized.
emotional stability - Answer - A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident,
and insecure.
openness to experience - Answer - A personality that characterizes someone in terms of
imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
core self-evaluation - Answer - Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities,
competence, and worth as a person.
,Machiavellianism - Answer - The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains
emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means.
narcissism - Answer - The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require excessive
admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
self-monitoring - Answer - where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her behavior to
external, situational factors.
proactive personality - Answer - People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action,
and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
values - 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 - Answer - A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of
their intensity.
terminal values - Answer - Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to
achieve during his or her lifetime.
instrumental values - Answer - Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's
terminal values.
personality Job-fit theory - 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 - Answer - where society accepts that power in institutions and organizations is
distributed unequally.
individualism - Answer - where people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members of
groups.
collectivism - 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 - Answer - where culture favors traditional masculine work roles of achievement,
power, and control.
femininity - 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 - 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 - Answer - A national culture attribute that emphasizes the future, thrift,
and persistence.
short-term orientation - 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 - Answer - factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological, and
inherent psychological makeup.
Perception - Answer - A process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory
impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
attribution theory - Answer - An attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is
internally or externally caused.
fundamental attribution error - 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 - Answer - The tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to
internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors.
selective perception - Answer - The tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis
of one's interests, background, experience, and attitudes.
halo effect - Answer - The tendency to draw a general impression about an individual on the
basis of a single characteristic.
contrast effect - 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 - Answer - Judging someone on the basis of one's perception of the group to which
that person belongs.
self-fulfilling prophecy - Answer - 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.
decisions - Answer - Choices made from among two or more alternatives.
problem - Answer - A discrepancy between the current state of affairs and some desired state.
Behavior Exam (Latest 2024/2025)
Questions and Verified Answers |
100% Correct | Graded A+
Personality - Answer - characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
Personality traits - Answer - characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a large
number of situations
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - Answer - A personality test that taps four characteristics
and classifies Behavior
Big Five Model - Answer - A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions.
extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
extraversion - Answer - A personality describing someone who is sociable and assertive
(confident and forceful )
agreeableness - Answer - A personality that describes someone who is good natured,
cooperative, and trusting.
conscientiousness - Answer - A personality that describes someone who is responsible,
dependable, persistent, and organized.
emotional stability - Answer - A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident,
and insecure.
openness to experience - Answer - A personality that characterizes someone in terms of
imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
core self-evaluation - Answer - Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities,
competence, and worth as a person.
,Machiavellianism - Answer - The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains
emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means.
narcissism - Answer - The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require excessive
admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
self-monitoring - Answer - where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her behavior to
external, situational factors.
proactive personality - Answer - People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action,
and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
values - 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 - Answer - A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of
their intensity.
terminal values - Answer - Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to
achieve during his or her lifetime.
instrumental values - Answer - Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's
terminal values.
personality Job-fit theory - 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 - Answer - where society accepts that power in institutions and organizations is
distributed unequally.
individualism - Answer - where people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members of
groups.
collectivism - 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 - Answer - where culture favors traditional masculine work roles of achievement,
power, and control.
femininity - 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 - 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 - Answer - A national culture attribute that emphasizes the future, thrift,
and persistence.
short-term orientation - 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 - Answer - factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological, and
inherent psychological makeup.
Perception - Answer - A process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory
impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
attribution theory - Answer - An attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is
internally or externally caused.
fundamental attribution error - 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 - Answer - The tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to
internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors.
selective perception - Answer - The tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis
of one's interests, background, experience, and attitudes.
halo effect - Answer - The tendency to draw a general impression about an individual on the
basis of a single characteristic.
contrast effect - 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 - Answer - Judging someone on the basis of one's perception of the group to which
that person belongs.
self-fulfilling prophecy - Answer - 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.
decisions - Answer - Choices made from among two or more alternatives.
problem - Answer - A discrepancy between the current state of affairs and some desired state.
