If Certain Characteristics of a Person Make Him or Her

question 41

Multiple Choice

If certain characteristics of a person make him or her more likely to survive and have children,those characteristics are more likely to be represented in subsequent generations.This describes the idea of ________,a fundamental principle of ________.

• A)natural selection; evolutionary theory
• B)the fundamental attribution error; Gestalt psychology
• C)evolutionary theory; natural selection
• D)construals; social psychology
• E)self-fulfilling prophecy; social cognition

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Definitions:

Lie Scale

A component of psychological testing designed to measure the tendency of respondents to give socially desirable responses or to lie.

Personality Inventory

A questionnaire (often with true-false or agree-disagree items) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits.

MBTI

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a personality inventory based on Carl Jung's theories of personality types, used to understand and categorize individual personality differences.

Personality Inventories

Questionnaires designed to reveal aspects of an individual's character or psychological makeup.