Regarding Personality Types, Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

question 520

Multiple Choice

Regarding personality types, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A) Two categories or even several are often inadequate to fully capture differences in personality.
• B) Rating people on a list of traits tends to be more informative than classifying people into two or three types.
• C) Types tend to oversimplify people.
• D) The personality types of introversion and extroversion were first proposed by Abraham Maslow.

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Definitions:

Independent Events

Two or more events where the occurrence of one does not affect the probability of the others occurring.

Conditional Probability

The probability of an event given that another event already occurred. The conditional probability of A given B is P(A ∣ B) = P(A ∩ B)/P(B).

P(B | A)

The probability of event B occurring given that event A has already occurred, a concept in conditional probability.

P(A ∪ B)

The probability of the occurrence of at least one of two events, A or B, including the case where both events occur simultaneously.