A Psychology That Focuses on the Measurement and Study of Variations

question 31

Multiple Choice

A psychology that focuses on the measurement and study of variations among people on a psychological characteristic rather than general qualities of that characteristic is known as

• A) psychophysics.
• B) self-psychology.
• C) psychology of individual differences.
• D) structuralism.

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