A Psychologist Wants to Determine a Parsimonious Way to Describe

question 184

Multiple Choice

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?

• A) factor analysis
• B) reaction formation
• C) free association
• D) autokinetic effect

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