BUS 272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Big Five Personality Traits, Trait Theory, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Peter Tingling

Document Summary

The stable patterns of behaviour and consistent internal systems that determine how an individual reacts/ interacts w others. Personality tests are useful in hiring decisions -- scores help forecast who is best fit for the job. Downside: respondents may lie to construct favourable impression. Influenced by parents biological, psychological and physiological makeup. Personality more changeable in adolescence and more stable in adults. The more consistent the charc. and more frequently it occurs in diverse satiation , the more important that trait is in describing someone. Myers-briggs type indicator (mbti) a personality test that taps four charc. and classifies people into. Forces people to be one or the other (introverted or extraverted), there"s no in-between. Positive self-evalu = like themselves, see themselves as effective and capable. Degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance and believes that ends cam justify means. Manipulate more, win more, persuaded less persuade others.