An Approach to Personality Measurement That Is Based on Assessing

question 45

Multiple Choice

An approach to personality measurement that is based on assessing the frequency of prototypical behaviors is the

• A) action paradigm.
• B) behavioral paradigm.
• C) base rate approach.
• D) act-frequency approach.

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Definitions:

Variance

An indication of how data points diverge from their average, showing the extent of their spread.

Normally Distributed

Describes a distribution that follows a bell curve, where data is symmetrically distributed with most values clustering around a central point.

Normally Distributed

Describes a statistical distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence.

Mean

The average value of a set of numbers, indicating the central point of a data distribution.