List and give a brief description of each of the Big Five personality traits. What will be an ...

Answer to q. 1

The five factors are summarized by the acronym OCEAN:
- Openness to experience: high scores are associated with people who have a vivid imagination and dream life, appreciate of art, and a strong desire to try anything once. Lower scores are associated with people who are down-to-earth, uncreative, conventional, uncurious, and conservative.

- Conscientiousness: high scores are associated with people who are hard-working, ambitious, energetic, scrupulous, and persevering. Lower scores are associated with people who are negligent, lazy, disorganized, late, and aimless.

- Extraversion: high scores are associated with people who thrive on social interaction, who like to talk, take charge easily, readily express their opinions and feelings, like to keep busy, have boundless energy, and prefer stimulating and challenging environments. Lower scores are associated with people who tend to be reserved, quiet, passive, serious, and emotionally unreactive.

- Agreeableness: high scores are associated with people who are accepting, willing to work with others, and caring. Lower scores are associated with people who are ruthless, suspicious, antagonistic, critical, and irritable.

- Neuroticism: high scores are associated with people who are anxious, hostile, self-conscious, depressed, impulsive, and vulnerable. Lower scores are associated with people who are calm, even-tempered, self-content, comfortable, unemotional, and hardy.

Answer to q. 2

FALSE

Answer to q. 3

As the textbook notes, adult learners differ from their younger counterparts in several ways:
- Adults have a higher need to know why they should learn something before undertaking it.
- Adults enter a learning situation with more and different experience on which to build.
- Adults are most willing to learn those things they believe are necessary to deal with real-world problems rather than abstract, hypothetical situations.

- Most adults are more motivated to learn by internal factors (such as self-esteem or personal satisfaction) than by external factors (such as a job promotion or pay raise).

Educators would do well to keep these factorsthese different factorsin mind when they have classrooms that include students from different age ranges and life-periods.