According to the "Toolkit" Metaphor, on What Basis Should We

question 23

Multiple Choice

According to the "toolkit" metaphor, on what basis should we evaluate theories of personality?

• A) According to whether they're correct most of the time; for instance, of 100 empirical studies that use the theory to explain a phenomenon, more than half should "work."
• B) According to what they can accomplish with them, to what advantages they have over other theories, and to what "tools" could be added or subtracted to make them better.
• C) According to how long they've been around, to how many times they've been used to explain phenomena, and to how many textbooks in which they appear.
• D) According to whether they have "intuitive appeal" - that is, some theories make so much sense when one hears about them, that even in the absence of data, one can sense their value.

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Definitions:

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