Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each description by whether it reflects a HIGH or LOW scorer on the named trait.
Groups: High scorer · Low scorer
- Neuroticism: calm, emotionally stable, and resilient under stress
- Openness: conventional, practical, and prefers familiar routines
- Agreeableness: blunt, competitive, and skeptical of others
- Conscientiousness: keeps a detailed planner and never misses a deadline
Hints
- Match each description to the HIGH or LOW pole of its own trait.
- Calm/stable is LOW neuroticism; conventional/routine-loving is LOW openness.
Show the answer
High scorer: Conscientiousness: keeps a detailed planner and never misses a deadline
Low scorer: Agreeableness: blunt, competitive, and skeptical of others, Neuroticism: calm, emotionally stable, and resilient under stress, Openness: conventional, practical, and prefers familiar routines
Why
Detailed planning is high conscientiousness and outgoing energy is high extraversion; bluntness is low agreeableness, calm stability is low neuroticism, and preferring routine is low openness. Each pole is read against its own trait's definition.
Practise The Big Five Trait Model
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