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A psychologist wants to determine a parsimonious way to describe personality. She starts with a large number of questions and tries to find the smallest number of traits that will account for the variation in people's answers. Which technique will she use?
Transduce
The process of converting one form of energy into another, as in sensory systems converting physical stimuli (e.g., light, sound) into neural signals.
Wavelength
The distance from the peak of one light wave or sound wave to the peak of the next. Electromagnetic wavelengths vary from the short gamma waves to the long pulses of radio transmission.
Intensity
The degree of strength, force, or concentration of a particular attribute or activity.
Brightness
Brightness refers to the perception of visual light's intensity and is directly related to the psychophysical experience of how "light" or "dark" an image appears.
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