Chapter 2 Vocabulary
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- Social self
- Your involvment with other people and your view of what they think about you
- Personality trait
- A personality characteristic that can be measured
- Interests
- Preferences a person has for specific topics of activities.
- Leisure time
- Time that is free from normal occupational responsibility.
- Ability
- How wel you perform specific work tasks.
- Aptitude
- A persons potential for success in performing a certan activity.
- Work history
- All of the jobs that one holds during the course of a working lifetime.
- Personality
- The relationship that exists between all of a persons phycological parts
- Interest surveys
- Test used to measure interests.
- Self direction
- Setting goals and workin toward them
- A.S.V.A.B
- Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
- Culture
- The way of life in the society in which you live.
- Self esteem
- The judgement you make about your level of competence and adequecy
- Promotion
- Advancement to a higher level position
- Avocation
- A constuctive leisure time activity that provides pesonal satisfaction.
- Temperament
- The way a person usually acts, feels and thinks in certain situations
- Traits
- Characteristics
- Stable Job
- A job considered to be permenent my last several years
- Working with things
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A category of job tasks that includes machines, tools, and instruments
- Working with data
- A category of job tasks that includes the use of words and numbers
- Reference Groups
- Groups that set behavior standards.
- Heredity
- The process of transmitting physical or mental characteristics from parent to child
- G.A.T.B.
- General Aptitude Test Battery
- Qualify
- meet the preliminary requirements;may last for several years
- Obsolete
- outdated;no longer in use
- Technology
- Aplication of scientific knowledge to practical uses
- Self
- The part of your experience that you consider to be you
- Worker trait groups
- Job categories that include physical demands, aptitudes, temperament, environmental conditions, training time, and vocational preparation.
- Working with people
- A category of job tasks that includes everything related to human relations.
- Character
- The senseof morality and the ethical code by which a person lives
- Environment
- Your surroundings.
- Life experiences
- Experiences that cause you to be confident of fearful as you prepare for a career.