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Personality
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the structures, propensities, and traits inside a person that explain his or her characteristic patterns of thought, emotion & behavior
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cultural values
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The shared beliefs about desirable end states or modes of conduct in a given culture
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ability
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the relative stable capabilities employees possess that allow them to perform a particular range of related activities.
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traits
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Recurring regularities or trends in people's responses to their environtment
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Big Five
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the 5 major dimensions of personnality, including conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience & extraversion
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accomplishment striving
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a strong desire to accomplish task related goals as a means of expressing personality
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communion striving
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a strong desire to obtain acceptance in personal relationships as a means of expressing personality
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status striving
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a strong desire to obtain power & influence within a social structure as a means of expressing personality
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positive affectivity
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a dispositional tendency to experience pleasant, engaging moods such as enthusiasm, excitement & elation
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negative affectivity
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a dispositional tendency to experience unpleasant moodssuch as hostility, nervousness & annoyance.
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locus of control
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whether people attribute the causes of events to themselves or to the external environtment
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creativity
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the capacity to generate novel and useful ideas & solutions
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individualism collectivity
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the degree to which a culture as a loosely knit social framework (individuallism) or a tight social framework(collectivism)
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Power distance
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the degree to which a culture prefers equal power distribution(low power distance) or an unequal power distribution(high power distance)
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uncertainty avoidance
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the degree to which a culture tolerates ambiguous situation(low uncertainty) or feels threatened by them(high uncertainty avoidance)
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masculinity femininity
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the degree to which a culture stereotypically male traits(masculinity) or stereotypically female traits(femininity)
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ethnocentrism
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a propensity to view one's own values as right & those of other culture as wrong
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cognitive abilities
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capabilities related to the acquisition and application of knowledge in problem solving
better @ learning & decision making |
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verbal ability
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various capabilities associated with understanding and expressing oral and written communication
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Quantitative ability
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various capabilities associated with doing math operations & choosing & applying formulas to solve problems
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reasoning ability
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a diverse set of abiltity associated with sensing and solving problems using insight, rule & logic
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spatial ability
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various capabilities associated with understanding one environtment and imagining changes to that environtment
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perceptual abilities
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being able to perceive, understand & recall patterns of information
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General cognitive ability
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an overal level of mental ability that drives more specific cognitive capabilities(often abbreviated g)
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emotional intelligence
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A set of abilities related to the understanding & use of emotions that affect social functioning
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self awareness
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the appraisal & recognition of emotions within oneself
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other awareness
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the appraisal & recognition of emotions in other
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emotion regulation
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being able to recover quickly from emotional experience
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use of emotions
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the degree to which people can harness emotions & employ them to improve their chances of being successful in whatever they are seeking to do
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conscientiousness
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conscientiousness=accomplishment striving
most important in job performance, for typical performance |
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agreeableness
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agreeableness=communion striving
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extraversion
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extraversion= status striving, high positive affectivity, leaders
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neuroticism
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high in negative affectivity, have external locus control
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openness
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Inquisitive, Intellectualness, high Culture, high level of creativity,
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the big five r sometimes called
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emotional adjustment, stability
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Verbal
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Verbal ability refers to various capabilities associated with understanding and expressing oral and written communication.
Oral comprehension is the ability to understand spoken words and sentences. Written comprehension is the ability to understand written words and sentences. Oral expression refers to the ability to communicate ideas by speaking Written expression refers to the ability to communicate ideas in writing. |
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quantitative
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Number facility is the capability to do simple math operations (adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing).
Mathematical reasoning refers to the ability to choose and apply formulas to solve problems that involve numbers. |
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reasoning
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Problem sensitivity is the ability to sense that there’s a problem or likely will be one.
Deductive reasoning refers to the use of general rules to solve problems. Inductive reasoning refers to the ability to consider several specific pieces of information and then reach a more general conclusion regarding how those pieces are related. Originality refers to the ability to develop clever and novel ways to solve problems |
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spatial
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Spatial orientation refers to having a good understanding of where one is relative to other things in the environment.
Visualization is the ability to imagine how separate things will look if they were put together in a particular way. |
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perceptual
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Perceptual abilities generally refer to being able to perceive, understand, and recall patterns of information.
Speed and flexibility of closure refers to being able to pick out a pattern of information quickly in the presence of distracting information, even without all the information present. Perceptual speed refers to being able to examine and compare numbers, letters, and objects quickly. |