Question

1. What has the greatest influence on shaping personality?

	A)thoughts and feelings
	B)consequences of behaviour and the environment
	C)genetics and environment
	D)the person and the situation

2. Assume you are an employment interviewer and you make an incorrect hiring decision based on the applicant’s physical appearance. What caused you to make this error?

	A)self-fulfilling prophecy
	B)first-impression error
	C)stereotype
	D)selective perception

3. Assume you are an employment interviewer and you make an incorrect hiring decision based on the applicant’s physical appearance. What caused you to make this error?

	A)self-fulfilling prophecy
	B)first-impression error
	C)stereotype
	D)selective perception

4. Abel pays close attention to the behaviour of others and adjusts his own behaviour accordingly. What is Abel demonstrating?

	A)low self-monitoring
	B)low self-esteem
	C)high self-monitoring
	D)high self-esteem

Answer 1

1). C). genetics and environment.

There are three main influences on personality development that we are going to look at in this lesson. Those are heredity, environment, and situation. Heredity: This refers to the influences on your personality that you are born with. They are in your genes and it is not much you can do to change these traits.

2). B). first-impression error.

Research has indicated that interviewers make decisions about candidates very quickly, in fact in the first 30 seconds to 2.5 minutes. This tendency to make initial judgments, positive or negative, about a candidate in those first few moments is called 'first impression error'.

4). C). high self-monitoring.

A high self-monitor is someone who is ''particularly sensitive to the situational appropriateness of his or her social behavior and who uses these cues as guidelines for monitoring (that is, regulating and controlling) his or her expressive behavior and self-presentation.