Contrast the Rational and Empirical Approaches to Personality Test Development

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Essay

Contrast the rational and empirical approaches to personality test development. Give an example of a test developed by each approach.

Explain the complexities involved in two-choice and conditional discrimination tasks.

Evaluate theoretical models (Hull-Spence, Kohler, Sutherland and MacKintosh) of discrimination learning.

Understand the concept of errorless discrimination training and its applications.

Identify the interchangeability of Pavlovian occasion setters with discriminative stimuli.

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Definitions:

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TNM System

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Distant Metastasis

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