Personality and Risk Taking Questionnaire Results

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Personality and Risk Taking Questionnaire Results

• Fall 09 Previous
• Introv.-Extrav. 21.6 20.8
• Agreeable. 19.6 19.0
• Conscient. 24.9 25.0
• Neur-Stabil. 22.0 20.8
• Openness 23.7 23.6
• Risk Taking 2.8 4.3

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Mental Ability

• General Intelligence (g factor)
• Correlates with most tests of specific ability
• Correlates with Performance in most jobs
• Specific Intelligences (s factors)
• e.g., memory, verbal comprehension, numerical
  ability, word comprehension, perceptual speed
• Correlate with Performance and Job
• Satisfaction in work utilizing the specific
  intelligences

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Cognitive Styles

• How do we gather information?
• Sensing - Look at the facts, details.
• Intuiting - Brainstorm, get a general overview.
• How do we choose between alternatives?
• Thinking - Analyze objectively, reason.
• Feeling - Consider the impact on people.

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Cognitive Styles

• Sensation / Thinking (ST) (e.g., technician)
• Intuitive / Thinking (NT) (e.g., planner)
• Sensation / Feeling (SF) (e.g., teacher)
• Intuitive / Feeling (NF) (e.g., artist)

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Myers-Briggs Test

• Has 4 dimensions
• Sensing vs. Intuiting
• Thinking vs. Feeling
• Extraversion vs. Introversion
• Judger vs. Perceiver
• (decisive vs. flexible)
• Higher and lower positions in each of the
  dimensions are used to classify people into one
  of 16 different personality categories.

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Emotional Intelligence

• Dimensions
• Knowing ones own emotions
• Controlling ones emotions
• Recognizing others emotions
• Influencing others emotions
• Author Daniel Goleman says incompetence in
  management occurs more often from lack of EQ than
  lack of IQ

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Improving Emotional Intelligence

• Emotional intelligence is a set of competencies
  (aptitudes, skills)
• Can be learned, especially through coaching
• EI increases with age -- maturity

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Testing Intelligence and Personality

• When using in selection and placement Back up
  with validity studies.
• In General
• Intelligence Tests- Moderate Validity
• Personality Tests- Low Validity

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Perception

• The link between the person and the environment
• Broadly defined, includes Social Perception
  (impressions of people)

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The Perception Process
Organizing the selected data into patterns for
interpretation and response
Screening the data and selecting what to process
Observing data via the senses
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Perception

• Why do people not always perceive things as they
  are?
• Why do people perceive things differently?
• Different people
• Same person at different times

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Sources of Perceptual Differences

• Selectivity (perceiving only part of environment
  or some parts more than others)
• External Factors (i.e., currently in physical
  environment)
• Similarity, Size, Nearness, Motion
• Internal Factors
• Experience, Motivation

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Sources of Perceptual Differences

• Closure (adding to your perception)
• Stereotyping
• Halo Effects
• Projection

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General Perception Problems

• Selectivity
• We are more likely to notice stimuli which are
  consistent with our values and beliefs.
• Closure
• We assume that what we dont know is consistent
  with what we do know.