The Cognitive Approach to Personality Explains Differences in Personality as Differences

question 38

Multiple Choice

The cognitive approach to personality explains differences in personality as differences in the way people

• A) respond to reinforcement.
• B) process information.
• C) think about their past.
• D) dream.

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Definitions:

P < .05

A statistical notation indicating that the probability of the observed results occurring by chance is less than 5%.

Effect Size

A quantitative measure of the strength of a phenomenon, often used to determine the practical significance of research findings.

Cohen

Refers to statistical measures developed by Jacob Cohen to quantify the effect size or the strength of an observed phenomenon, such as Cohen's d.

Cohen's D

A gauge for quantifying the size of impact by showing the normalized discrepancy between two mean values.