Psychologists Have Found It Difficult to Define Personality Because

question 58

Multiple Choice

Psychologists have found it difficult to define personality because

• A)the idea of studying human personality is a rather new concept in psychology.
• B)personality has a common sense definition that psychologists find hard to falsify.
• C)psychologists are not smart enough to determine the boundaries of human personality.
• D)any definition of personality needs to be sufficiently comprehensive to include a multitude of concepts.

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Definitions:

Individual Differences

Variations or disparities among individuals in regards to their behaviors, emotions, intellect, or physical traits.

ABA Design

An experimental design in which participants first experience the baseline condition (A), then the intervention or treatment (B), and finally return to the baseline (A) to assess change.

Reversibility

The ability of a process or condition to be reversed or returned to its original state.

Quasi-experimental Designs

Research designs that attempt to establish a cause-and-effect relationship but lack random assignment to groups.