To Understand Personality,trait Theorists Attempt to

question 139

Multiple Choice

To understand personality,trait theorists attempt to

• A) discover how the various traits were learned in early childhood.
• B) increase the number of basic traits that have been identified.
• C) classify traits and discover how they are related to behavior.
• D) reduce source traits to cardinal traits.

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Definitions:

Stimulus

A stimulus is any event or situation that evokes a response from an organism.

Sensation

The process of detecting physical stimuli from the environment and converting them into neural signals that the brain can interpret.

Threshold

The point of intensity at which a stimulus becomes detectable to an individual or evokes a response.

Angler

A person who fishes with a rod and line, typically for recreation.