Staudinger Argues That Openness to Experience Is Highly Correlated with Ego

question 87

Multiple Choice

Staudinger argues that openness to experience is highly correlated with ego development, wisdom, and emotional complexity and that all of these characteristics____________ in people as they age.

• A)increase
• B)remain the same
• C)decline
• D)become increasingly difficult to measure

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Definitions:

Sigmund Freud

An Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Reinforcement Techniques

Methods used in behaviorism to increase or decrease the likelihood of a specific behavior by adding or removing stimuli following the behavior.

B F Skinner

A psychologist and behaviorist known for his work on operant conditioning, emphasizing the role of reinforcement and punishment.

Unconscious Mind

Part of the mind that is not immediately accessible to conscious awareness, containing thoughts, memories, and desires that lie outside personal consciousness.