Compared to Theorists from a Past "Generation" of Psychology, Personality

question 54

Multiple Choice

Compared to theorists from a past "generation" of psychology, personality psychologists today generally are more likely to acknowledge that

• A) the personalities of newborns resemble a "blank slate."
• B) personality cannot be separated from our biology.
• C) all people have similar biological functioning, such as nearly identical brain-wave activity.
• D) differences in adult personality are a result of different learning histories.

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Definitions:

Mutually Exclusive Events

Two events that cannot occur at the same time.

Dependent Events

Events whose occurrence or outcome is influenced by other events.

Mutually Exclusive Events

Events that cannot happen at the same time in any given experiment or observation.

Independent Events

Two events are independent if the occurrence of one does not affect the probability of the occurrence of the other.