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, CHAPTER 1WHAT PREDICTS SUCCESS?
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. According to the textbook’s author, successful managers tend to have _____.
a. higher IQ’s
b. bigger budgets
c. higher status educations
d. none of the above (Recall, Moderate)
2. The Center for Creative Leadership estimates that about _______ of managers never
reach their full potential.
a. 90%
b. 75%
c. 50% (Recall, Difficult)
d. 25%
3. The tendency for managers to fail to reach their full potential is called _____.
a. shortchanging
b. de-optimization
c. derailment (Recall, Easy)
d. lack of competence
4. “Derailment” is a term used to describe a manager who _____.
a. declines a promotion
b. changes jobs, by his/her own choosing
c. quits an organization
d. is fired, demoted, or plateaued below anticipated levels of achievement
(Recall, Moderate)
5. A manager who becomes “plateaued” in an organization can be called _____.
a. downsized
b. obsolete
c. empowered
d. derailed (Recall, Easy)
6. In his studies of the link between IQ (how one scores on standardized intelligence
tests) and success on the job, researcher Robert Sternberg concluded that IQ predicts
_____% of job success.
a. between 75 and 85
b. between 60 and 75
c. between 55 and 65
d. between 4 and 25 (Recall, Difficult)
,7. Researchers have found that creating an intellectually stimulating and supportive
environment can make a _____ point difference in children’s IQ scores.
a. 3-5
b. 12-18 (Recall, difficult)
c. 22-28
d. 32-35
8. When Lois Frankel speaks of people who are unable to “overcome their strengths,”
she is referring to _____.
a. people who are involved in lifelong learning
b. people who are focused on the skills and routines that brought them success
in the past, to the exclusion of developing new skills (Recall, Moderate)
c. people who are aware of the need to build new strengths
d. people who recognize that different situations can call for different sets of skills
9. Which of the following statements is most true about derailed executives?
a. Their greatest strengths may be their greatest weaknesses. (Recall, Difficult)
b. Their personality characteristics have nothing to do with their derailment.
c. Their greatest strength is flexibility.
d. They tend to derail due to office politics that they cannot control.
10. Carol Dweck and her colleagues studied beliefs about intelligence. She found that
people are most likely to be successful when they believe that intelligence _____.
a. is innate
b. can change over time (Recall, Moderate)
c. is stable over time
d. none of the above
11. Which of the following statements is most true about people who believe intelligence
is fluid?
a. They are more likely to achieve higher performance in school and at work
(recall, moderate)
b. They are less likely to achieve higher performance in school and at work.
c. They are more likely to have an “interdependent” construal of the self.
d. They are more likely to have an “independent” construal of the self.
12. Research suggests that it takes approximately _________ to become an expert in an
area:
a. 2 years
b. 4 years
c. 7 years
d. 10 years (Recall, Easy)
, 13. Based on the research described in this chapter, which of the following is not central
to the development of expertise?
a. depending on natural talent (Recall, Moderate)
b. mindful, deliberate practice
c. feedback
d. breaking large goals into small and specific techniques
14. Based on the information in this chapter, the following are characteristics that predict
success:
a. conscientiousness, proactivity, self-awareness, maximizing
b. conscientiousness, proving goal orientation, proactivity, social skills
c. conscientiousness, proactivity, self-awareness, social skills (Recall, Difficult)
d. None of the above is correct
15. Optimal challenges are those that __________.
a. divert cognitive resources from learning
b. are consistent with a deliberate goal orientation
c. help people expand their abilities and learn from failure (Recall, Moderate)
d. help people expand their abilities while avoiding failure
16. People with a characteristic called “conscientiousness” are most likely to be
successful when they also have a characteristic called _____.
a. critical monitoring
b. attribution oriented
c. self-anchoring
d. agreeableness (Recall, Difficult)
17. A characteristic that describes how “hard-working, thorough, efficient, reliable, and
ambitious you are” is _____.
a. conscientiousness (Recall, Easy)
b. creative intelligence
c. practical intelligence
d. proactive personality
18. Conscientiousness includes the following characteristics:
a. achievement-orientation, goal-directed, dependable, hardworking, and
planful (Recall, Difficult)
b. achievement-orientation, goal-directed, hardworking, planful, and emotional
intelligence
c. achievement-orientation, goal-directed, dependable, hardworking, and agreeable
d. achievement-orientation, goal directed, dependable, social skills, and risk-taking
19. According to researcher Jennifer Chatman, people who have this personality
characteristic are more likely to achieve higher salaries and promotions.
a. cognitive stability
b. technical proficiency
c. conscientiousness (Recall, Easy)
d. a devoted mentor in their first jobs
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