Which of the Following Statements Best Summarizes the Stability of Personality

question 60

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements best summarizes the stability of personality over time?

• A)For most people,personality changes greatly over time,especially during mid-life.
• B)Personality is stable across all people in all cultures.
• C)For most people,personality traits tend to be stable over time,but within some individuals there may be relatively large changes.
• D)Personality characteristics are subject to a great deal of change depending on environmental stressors.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A spectrum of numbers resulting from sample measurements, which is thought to cover the value of an unidentified population feature.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, showing how spread out the data points are from the mean.

Chi-squared Distribution

A statistical distribution that is used to describe the distribution of a sum of squared random variables, often used in hypothesis testing.

Chi-squared Distribution

A statistical distribution that describes the distribution of the sum of the squares of a set of variables that follow a normal distribution, commonly used in hypothesis testing.