Eysenck's Basic Personality Dimension That Describes Whether People Are Characterized

question 265

Multiple Choice

Eysenck's basic personality dimension that describes whether people are characterized by tenderness, warmth, and helpfulness, or insensitivity and uncooperativeness is ________.

• A) psychoticism
• B) emotional stability-instability
• C) neuroticism
• D) introversion-extroversion

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Definitions:

Inducible Genes

Genes whose expression is either initiated or increased in response to specific stimuli.

Repressor

A protein that binds to specific DNA sequences, preventing the transcription of certain genes and thereby controlling gene expression.

Promoter

A region of DNA that initiates transcription of a particular gene, typically located near the transcription start sites of genes.

Inducer

A molecule that binds to a repressor protein, converting it to its inactive form, which is unable to prevent transcription.