People Who Have Taken a New Personality Test Say They

question 170

Multiple Choice

People who have taken a new personality test say they think its results are highly accurate.Why should we be skeptical?​

• A)Although the results may be good today, personality changes greatly over time.
• B)​Any test that people accept must not be probing deeply into the unconscious mind.
• C)​Personality does not vary in any dimension that can be measured.
• D)​Most people accept almost any assessment of themselves as valid.

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Definitions:

Methods of Science

Systematic and empirical approaches to the investigation and understanding of phenomena, involving observation, hypothesis, and experimentation.

Respondent Conditioning

A form of learning in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a reflexive response through conditioning, also known as classical conditioning.

Consequences

Outcomes or effects that result from a given action or condition.

Social Learning

A theory that proposes people can learn new behaviors and information by observing others, also known as observational learning.