In His Early Lexical Studies of Personality Structure,Cattell (1947)used Only

question 5

Multiple Choice

In his early lexical studies of personality structure,Cattell (1947) used only about 35 adjectives,even though there were thousands of personality-descriptive adjectives in the English language.Why did Cattell use such a small set of adjectives?

• A)He needed words that all of his personality raters would understand,so he chose only the 35 most well-known adjectives.
• B)He wanted only those words that had direct translations into every known language.
• C)He had to make sure that the factor analysis calculations would not become too complex and time-consuming.
• D)He decided that he needed only about seven adjectives for each Big Five factor to obtain adequate reliability of measurement.
• E)None of the above.

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