Why Is It Especially Difficult to Develop Good Measures of Personality

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Multiple Choice

Why is it especially difficult to develop good measures of personality?

• A) Personality is caused by unconscious processes, which cannot be observed.
• B) Personality is extremely stable, and it is very difficult to measure something that doesn't change.
• C) We are trying to measure how someone acts in general, but their behavior may change from moment to moment.
• D) Most languages, including English, simply do not have enough words or concepts to allow us to describe personality.

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