This is one of your assigned learning journal entries. While you are strongly advised to complete it this week, it is not due until Lesson 7. The learning journal entries are submitted in two batches: the first during Lesson 7 and the second during Lesson 15, per the Course Schedule.
First, read the assigned article “A Room With a Cue: Personality Judgments Based on Offices and Bedrooms” (2002). Then, consider parts A and B below.
Part A: You are going to hire someone for a particular job. The job entails traveling to the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa. There, the person you hire will connect with a small team of wildlife biologists who are studying the mating and foraging habits of the mountain gorilla, an endangered species. This involves coming into close daily contact with, and carefully observing interaction patterns among members of the gorilla troop. Given (Links to an external site.) only the Big-5 factors of personality as criteria for choosing among job applicants, please decide where your ideal applicant would fall (high or low) with respect to each factor. There are not necessarily correct or incorrect answers; be rational and justify your answer based on the information given and on your imagination.
Part B: Given your choice of Big Five criteria above, you next have to select one individual from the pool of applicants. Unfortunately, you cannot meet or talk with any of the candidates. Instead, all of the applicants are seniors at Penn State University who live in dorm rooms and they have given you complete permission to view and inspect their room (single, not shared rooms). In fact, you do manage to locate one perfect applicant who, based on what you find in their dorm room, perfectly matches your ideal Big Five criteria from the paragraph above.
What did you observe/note? Why was it meaningful to you? Thus, for each Big Five dimension, discuss what you observed in the ideal candidate’s room and by what logic were able to extrapolate from the item(s) observed to that candidate’s predicted score on the Big-5. Come up with at least one cue (something you found/observed/perceived in the dorm room) for each Big Five dimension. Use your imagination; be creative!
Parts A and B combined should total 450-500 words; 200 words max for A, 300 words max for B. Put #words at end of answer. In Part B, explicitly draw on the A Room with a Cue article. (Note: while the article suggests that the use of cues to make accurate predictions varies across the Big 5 dimensions – for the purposes of this assignment you can presume that reasonable cues exist for each of the dimensions. And, please be creative rather than simply mimicking some of the cues discussed in the article).
One of the takeaways here is to show you how an understanding of personality dimensions can be practiced in everyday life. Maybe you can’t give your coworkers a written personality assessment, but perhaps you can come to understand some of their personality characteristics by observing the visual cues accessible to you in everyday life!
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