When Cattell Used Factor Analysis to Reduce the Number of Trait-Descriptive

question 60

Multiple Choice

When Cattell used factor analysis to reduce the number of trait-descriptive adjectives in his pool, he was combining the approaches.

• A)lexical and statistical
• B)theoretical and act frequency
• C)act frequency and statistical
• D)theoretical and statistical

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Definitions:

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century, advocating for individualism and the inherent goodness of people and nature.

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