A Problem with Self-Report Measure for Assessing Personality Is People

question 29

True/False

A problem with self-report measure for assessing personality is people often answer the questionnaires in terms of how they want to be seen, rather than as they really are.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

The return of a conditioned response that had been previously eliminated, following a period where there was no exposure to the conditioned stimulus.

Thorndike

An American psychologist famous for his work on learning theory that led to the development of operant conditioning within behaviorism.

Latent Learning

Learning that occurs without any obvious conditioning or immediate display of behavior and manifests later when suitable.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening of a conditioned response that results in the behavior decreasing or disappearing.