How Do the Idiographic and Nomothetic Approaches to Studying Personality

question 124

Multiple Choice

How do the idiographic and nomothetic approaches to studying personality differ?

• A) The first focuses on the unique characteristics of the individual, whereas the latter looks at variation in characteristics common to all people.
• B) The first uses projective reports, whereas the latter employs case reports.
• C) The first uses research methods, whereas the latter employs psychobiography.
• D) They employ essentially the same methods but make different assumptions about personality dynamics.

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Post Office Protocol, a protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mails from a remote server over an Internet connection.

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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, a protocol used in the transmission of email messages over the Internet.

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