How can your personality affect your job performance or satisfaction?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Some jobs can seem great—high-paying and interesting—but may not fit your personality. An introvert might find it difficult to do a service job (say, a cashier in an airport) that involves constant interaction with strangers. Individuals high in openness to experience find it challenging to work in jobs that offer little opportunity for creativity or growth. Individuals low in conscientiousness find it difficult to perform well in jobs requiring a lot of organization. The issue often is not whether a job is "good" or "bad"; if your personality does not fit the job, you are far less likely to be happy doing it. Imagine being an accountant if you did not care about order or neatness (i.e., low conscientiousness) or being a trial lawyer if you liked pleasant relationships in which people were always happy and nice (i.e., high agreeableness). Either your personality would have to change to meet the job or you would be very unhappy and would quit and find another career.
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What will be an ideal response?
The mother's rubella infection has its worst teratogenic effects on the offspring when the infection occurs
a. in combination with alcohol. b. during the first trimester. c. during the second trimester. d. during the third trimester.
_____ valid stimuli—those with a real connection to an unconditioned stimulus—are learned more quickly than _____ stimuli
a) Psychologically; random b) Biologically; non-predisposed c) Ecologically; arbitrary d) Physically; emotional
Suppose you perform an experiment in which you allow a group of babies to suck on one of two different pacifiers. Some babies sucked on the one that was smooth and round and other babies sucked on the pacifier that had ridges on it and was oblong
Later, you show both pacifiers to the babies. Generalizing from similar research reported in the text, you would expect that the babies would look: a. longer at the pacifier that they had sucked on b. longer at the pacifier that was "new" c. equally long at both pacifiers d. at neither pacifier, since sucking on a "weird" pacifier was unpleasant for them