Critics of the Trait Approach to Personality Have Raised Each

question 45

Multiple Choice

Critics of the trait approach to personality have raised each of the following points except one. Which one?

• A) Personality researchers do not measure behaviors correctly.
• B) There is little evidence for cross-situational consistency.
• C) Psychologists place too much emphasis on personality test scores when making psychological diagnoses.
• D) Trait measures do not predict behavior well.

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Theoretical Distribution

A statistical distribution based on assumptions about a population, used as a model to understand or predict real-world phenomena.

Frequency Distribution

A summary of data showing the number of occurrences of different values or ranges of values.

Frequency Distributions

Representations of the number of observations within a given interval. The distribution shows the frequencies of different outcomes in a sample.

Normal Distributions

A probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.