What Can We Conclude About the Development of Dispositional Traits

question 22

Multiple Choice

What can we conclude about the development of dispositional traits across adulthood?

• A) Personality traits remain mostly stable throughout adulthood when the data are averaged across many different kinds of people.
• B) Personality traits remain stable but only when examining specific personality traits in specific kinds of people.
• C) When the data are averaged across many different kinds of people, the research overwhelmingly points to personality change over time.
• D) It has become apparent that we do not have adequate measures to assess personality trait stability and change over time.

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Definitions:

Marginal Cost Curve

A graph showing the change in the cost of producing one more unit of a good as production levels change.

Short-Run Supply Curve

A graphical representation showing the quantity of goods a firm is willing to supply at different price levels in the short term, holding some inputs fixed.

Shutdown Point

The level of operation at which a firm's total revenue is equal to its total variable costs, below which the firm should cease production to minimize losses.

Point

A specific location or position in a spatial setting or within a set of data.