MAPP Assessment Glossary

The MAPP Glossary can be printed for reference or you can use it while taking the assessment by double-clicking on the word itself. We have defined the following words and phrases to help you understand what the situations you read within MAPP mean.

• Abstract ideas and concepts
- Abstract ideas, images or thoughts that are theoretical, considered apart from concrete existence, not applied or practical, not easily understood.
• Accountant
-one who keeps, audits, and inspects the financial records of individuals or businesses and prepares financial and tax reports.
• Statistician
-a mathematician specializing in statistics; a compiler of statistical data.
• Statistics
-mathematics of the collection, organization, and interpretation of numerical data.
• Administrative work
-referring to the management of affairs especially business or public affairs, by an administrator or executive.
• "Avoid negative psychological encounters"
-keep away from or keep from happening, unplanned or unexpected emotions.
• Bankruptcy
-the condition of being legally bankrupt; a debtor who upon voluntary petition or being invoked by his creditors is judged to be legally insolvent (unable to meet debts or discharge liabilities or obligations, duties, contracts, promises, or other social, moral or legal requirements that compels one to follow a given course of action), and whose remaining property is administered for his creditors or distributed among them. Also means impoverished, or destitute.
• Theoretical
-based on theory; systematically organized knowledge applicable in a relatively wide variety of circumstances; a system of assumptions, accepted principles, and rules of procedure used to analyze, predict or explain the nature of behavior of a specified set of phenomena (an occurrence or fact that is directly perceptible by the senses).
• Conceptual
-of or pertaining to concepts; a general idea or understanding derived from specific instances or occurrences.
• Imaginative
-characterized by originality and expressiveness; fresh, new, unusual, not derived from something else; preceding all others in time, first; or the power or ability of the mind to form a mental image or concept of something that is not real or present.
• Benevolent
-the act of or capacity for understanding or sharing the feelings of another person; charitable, gracious, compassionate, kindhearted, generous, showing sympathy.
• Cadet drill activity
-an activity used to instruct or infuse knowledge by repetition in a skill, procedure or exercise for students in a military school.
• Chiropractor
-a doctor who uses a system of therapy in which disease is considered to be the result of neural malfunction, and the preferred method of treatment is manipulation of the spinal column and other structures.
• Physical therapist
-one who treats disease and injury by mechanical means including exercise, heat, light, and massage.
• Commission
-a fee or percentage allowed a salesperson or agent for his/her services.
• Company maintenance
-to preserve or to keep company property in proper condition.
• Company operations
-the acts, functions, processes or ways of operating and managing work affairs at a company.
• Delinquent
-failing to do what is necessary or required by law or obligation.
• Diplomatic corps
-the body of diplomatic personnel in residence at the capital of a nation; those who are involved in the practice of conducting international relations.
• "Do statistical analysis of research data"
-employing the use of statistics or the mathematics of collection, organization, and interpretation of numerical data to separate or divide the data into basic parts or principles so as to determine the nature of the whole.
• "Ethics, values policies"
- a basic truth, law, assumption, rule, standard, policy, or principles of right or good conduct.
• Moral principles
- of or concerned with the judgment principles of right and wrong in relation to human action and character.
• Values
-a principle, standard or quality considered worthwhile or desirable; of merit, usefulness, importance to the possessor.
• "Exploratory, innovative research"
-the act or instance of searching, investigating and examining systematically.
• Innovative
-to begin or introduce something new; to be creative.
• "Local historical center"
- a museum; an institution for the acquisition, preservation, study and exhibition of historical works.
• Holistic
-emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interconnectedness of its parts.
• Human resource manager
-one who manages labor or human capital.
• "Independently ignore psychological pressures"
-to dismiss a burdensome, distressing or weighty condition, a constraining influence upon the mind or will.
• Independent professional or specialist
-having great skill or experience in a particular field or activity.
• Industrial park
- an area usually located on the outskirts of a city that is zoned, designated or marked off for a group of industries and businesses.
• Industrial scales
-instruments or machines used for weighing.
• "Maintain an information database for research"
-to keep in existence or sustain a collection of data; information organized for analysis or used as a basis for a decision, arranged for ease and speed of retrieval, as by a computer for scholarly or scientific investigation or inquiry.
• "Manage or direct a scientific research center"
-control the use of, administer, direct or supervise an entity where research is gathered through the use of scientific methods.
• "Manage organizational or operational activities"
-administer or direct the activities involved in putting together the activities or series of acts, processes and conditions to affect certain purpose or result, as in an agency or business organization that carries out planning and operating functions on an executive level.
• Management consultant
-a person who gives expert or professional advice and information regarding the practice of managing, supervising or controlling a business establishment, organization or institution.
• Mechanical engineer
-a person who plans, constructs and manages design, construction and operation of efficient and economical structures, equipment and systems through the application of mechanical, scientific and mathematical principles.
• Metropolitan city
-a major urban area.
• Multiple use of resources
-several or many different ways one can utilize assets and capital; something that can be turned to for support or help when needed.
• Negotiations
-the act or process of conferring, consulting, meeting, or discussing with others in order to reach an agreement on a matter; to settle.
• Novelty
-the quality of being new, unusual, or innovative.
• Organizational activities
-actions involved in putting together a coherent form or systematic pattern or structure.
• Perception
-the process, act, or faculty of perceiving; insight, intuition, or knowledge gained by perceiving; to become aware of directly through the senses (especially seeing and hearing); to take notice or observe, achieve and understand.
• "Performance goals, results"
-objectives, the purpose toward which an endeavor (a conscientious or concerted effort toward a given end, an earnest, purposeful and serious attempt), is directed; the act of performing work to begin and complete; to carry on a function; to fulfill an obligation or requirement.
• Personality
-the totality of one’s qualities and traits, as of character or behavior that are particular to a person.
• Motivation
-to provide with an incentive, an emotion, desire, physiological need or similar impulse acting as an incitement to action or cause motion.
• Production activity
-actions involved in manufacturing, fabricating or creating something.
• Production line assembly of equipment
-a line of factory workers and machines on which the product or equipment assembled or put together passes consecutively through operations until completed.
• Psychiatrist
-doctor specialized in the medical study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness.
• Counselor
- a person who gives counsel, advice, or guidance.
• Rural community
-people who live in the country or pertaining to farming or agriculture.
• Social planning commission
-authorized body for planning community activites.
• Social service
-organized efforts to advance human welfare.
• Social worker
-one who works in the area of social work or welfare.
• Strategy and tactics
-the art or skill of using strategems or military-like maneuvers to deceive or surprise an opponent.
• Suburb
-residential area or community outlying a city.
• Tact and diplomacy
-the sensitivity to what is appropriate at any given time in relationships, together with the ability to speak or act in such relationships.
• Technical, scientific, or mechanical work
-work involving the use of machine and or tools, and employing scientific method; the totality of principles and processes regarded as characteristic of or necessary for scientific investigation; or the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of natural phenomenon.
• "Try to psychologically intimidate others"
-to discourage or inhibit, by or as if by emotional threats.
• Use technical equipment for scientific research
-use of tools and machines for scientific investigation.
• "Work with theory, concepts, and options, strategy"
-a system of assumptions, accepted principles, and rules of procedure devised to analyze, predict, or otherwise explain the nature of behavior of a specified set of phenomena; ideas, choices and use of strategems.
• "Work with ideas, values, ethics, principles"
-thoughts, notions, convictions, conceptions, images, principles, standards, rules, morals, basic truths or laws.