A Psychologist Develops a Test to Measure Individual Differences in Social

question 57

Multiple Choice

A psychologist develops a test to measure individual differences in social anxiety. She obtains social anxiety scores from a large group of participants, and then tries to predict how those scoring high on the test will act in a social situation as compared to those scoring low. This psychologist would probably be identified with which approach to personality?

• A) Psychoanalytic
• B) Trait
• C) Humanistic
• D) Behavioral/social learning

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