Within the Framework of the Big Five Personality Factors, Conscientiousness

question 88

Multiple Choice

Within the framework of the Big Five Personality Factors, conscientiousness is a personality factor that describes the degree to which a person is

• A)sociable, talkative, and assertive.
• B)imaginative, artistically sensitive, and intellectual.
• C)calm, self confident, and secure.
• D)responsible, dependable, persistent, and achievement oriented.
• E)good natured, cooperative, and trusting.

Acknowledge the importance of phenotype frequencies in population genetics.

Explain the maintenance of certain alleles in populations through mechanisms such as frequency-dependent selection.

Understand the ecological approach to mental health promotion and its importance.

Identify the components focused on by researchers in disease prevention programs.

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Definitions:

Self-Serving Bias

A cognitive bias that leads individuals to attribute their successes to internal factors while blaming external factors for their failures.

Differential Forgetting

Refers to the phenomenon that different types of information are forgotten at different rates, often influenced by the relevance, emotional impact, and repetition of the information.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overemphasize personality traits and underestimate situational factors when explaining others' behavior.

Illusory Correlation

Cognitive exaggeration of the degree of co-occurrence of two stimuli or events, or the perception of a co-occurrence where none exists.