This Approach to Personality Has Advanced Our Understanding of How

question 383

Multiple Choice

This approach to personality has advanced our understanding of how person and situation variables interact to produce behaviour, with a strong scientific base. This is the ______________ approach to personality.

• A)social cognitive
• B)humanistic
• C)psychodynamic
• D)trait

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Definitions:

Factorial Design

A factorial design is an experimental setup that involves studying the effects of two or more factors by changing them simultaneously, often used to analyze interactions between factors.

Manipulated Variables

Variables in an experiment that are changed or controlled by the researcher to observe their effect on the dependent variable.

Measured Variables

Variables in a study that are quantified or labeled based on empirical observation or experiment.

Independent Variable

The factor in a study that is deliberately changed by the investigator to see how it influences the outcome variable.