CAREER CONNECTIONSCHAPTER 2

KNOWING YOURSELF: INTERESTS AND

APTITUDES

A. Career Connections - Chapter 2 Key Terms

1.Working with things is a category of job tasks that involves the use of machines, tools, and instruments.

2.The way a person usually acts, feels, and thinks in certain situations is called temperament.

3.Your character is your sense of morality and the ethical code by which you live.

4.Working with people is a category of job tasks that includes everything related to human relations.

5.Your involvement with other people and your view of what they think about you is your social self.

6. Tests used to measure interests are called interest surveys.

7. Reference groups are groups that set behavior standards.

8. Interests are preferences a person has for specific topics or activities.

• The part of your experience that you regard as essentially you is your self.

10. The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) is a group of tests that measures your aptitudes in five broad career fields.

11. How well you perform specific work tasks is your ability.

12. Working with data involves the use of words and numbers.

13. A constructive leisure-time activity

that provides personal satisfaction is an avocation

14. Personality is the relationship that exists between all of a person’s psychological parts.

B. Factors That Influence Your Development

1. Heredity

4. Environment

2. Culture

3. Life Experience

B. 5.

Heredity – the transmission of

physical and mental characteristics

from parent to offspring

B. 6.

From the day you are born, your environment (surroundings) has influenced you , and in turn your environment has been influenced by you.

B. 7. The culture (way of life in the society in which you live) also influences your attitude toward education and training.

The United States is a nation in diverse (distinct or different) cultures

7. The term culture denotes whole product of an individual, group or society of intelligent beings. It includes, technology, art, science, as well as moral systems and characteristic behaviors and habits.

a. Religion/Beliefs f. Marriage

b. Celebrations/Holidays g. Music

c. Family structure h. Literature

d. Food i. Art

e. National, Regional, Ethnic Traditions

B. 8. Significant events in a person’s life that affect his or her actions and attitudes are life experiences. These experiences cause you to feel confident or fearful as you prepare for a career, develop friendships, or enter into a lifelong relationship.

C. Personality

The parts of personality include:

1. Character – sense of morality and ethical code in which you live

2. Temperament – the way you usually act, think, and feel in certain situations

3. Ability – how well you perform work tasks

4. Interests – the preferences you have for specific topics or activities

5. Personality trait – any personality characteristic that can be measured

C. 6. Self-Concept is your attitude toward

your personality.

7. Self-esteem is your judgment about your level of competence and adequacy as a person.

C. 8. Self – is that part of your experience that you regard as essentially you.

The image you have developed about yourself includes these components:

a) Your physical and material self

b) Your psychological self

c) Your emotional self

d) Your social self

e) Your ideal self

C. 9 Interests

a) Working with data - Verbal and numerical information.

b) Working with people – Interacting with others

c) Working with things – Tools, instruments, or machines

C. 10.Aptitude – is a person’s potential for success in performing a certain

activity

Learning capability, intelligence

Verbal proficiency

Numerical skill

Spatial thinking

Form perception

Clerical perception

Motor coordination

Finger dexterity

Manual dexterity

Eye-hand coordination

Color discrimination

11. Leisure time is time free from your everyday job responsibilities.

Rest: sleeping, relaxing

Recreation: having fun, playing games, spending time with friends

Avocation: volunteering, being involved with organizations, or doing any constructive activity that provides personal satisfaction

Levels of Leisure

CHAPTER 2 KNOWING YOURSELF:

INTERESTS AND APTITUDES

IT’S YOUR TURN!

Answer questions

in Chapter 2