Chapter 2 Vocabulary 2
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- Worker Traits Groups
- Job categories that include physical demands, aptitudes, temperaments, environmental conditions, training time, and vocational prparation.
- Promotion
- Advancement to higher level position.
- Avocation
- A constructive leisure-time activity that produces personal satisfaction.
- Life Experiences
- Experiences that cause you to be confident of fearful as you prepare for a career.
- Social Self
- Your invovlement with other people and your view about what they think about you.
- Self-Esteem
- The judgement you make about your competence and adequacy.
- Culture
- The way of life in the society in which you live.
- ASVAB
- Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
- Working With Things
- A category of job tasks that invovles the use of machines, tools, and instruments.
- Traits
- Characteristics.
- Stable Job
- A job considered to be permanent; may last several years.
- Character
- The sense of morality and the ethnical code by which you live.
- Temperament
- The way a person usually acts, thinks or feels in certain situations.
- Self
- The part of your experience that you consider to be you.
- Leisure Time
- Time that is free from normal occupational responsibilities.
- Personality
- The relationship that exists between a person's physiological parts.
- Work History
- All the jobs that one holds during a working lifetime.
- Self Direction
- Setting goals and working toward them.
- Technology
- Application of scientific knowledge to practical uses.
- Qualify
- To meet preliminary requirements, as for a job position.
- Personality Trait
- A personality characteristic that can be measured.
- Heredity
- The process of transmitting physical or mental traits from parent to child.
- GATB
- General Aptitud Test Battery.
- Reference Groups
- Groups that set behavior standards.
- Working With Data
- A category of job tasks that involves the use of words and numbers.
- Interest Surveys
- Tests used to measure interests.
- Aptitude
- A person's potential for seccess in performing a certain activity.
- Ability
- How well you perform specific work tasks.
- Obsolete
- Outdated; no longer in use.
- Environment
- Your surroundings.
- Working With People
- A category of job tasks that invovles everything related to humans.
- Interests
- Preferences a person has for specific topics and activities.