An Important Shortcoming of Trait Models as Explanations for Personality

question 114

Multiple Choice

An important shortcoming of trait models as explanations for personality development is that they do not

• A) address the address the causes or development of personality.
• B) consider the importance of conscious information processing.
• C) predict actual differences in observed behaviours.
• D) adequately describe differences in personality development.

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Definitions:

Self-Serving Bias

The common tendency to attribute one’s successes to personal characteristics and failures to external factors.

Shock Machine

Often associated with psychological experiments, it refers to a device used to deliver an electric shock to a subject, typically used in studies on obedience, learning, and punishment.

Stanley Milgram

A psychologist best known for his research on obedience to authority, which revealed how people are willing to follow orders even when it results in harming others.

Obedience

Compliance with an order, request, or law, or submission to another's authority.