When Cattell Used Factor Analysis to Reduce the Number of Trait

question 33

Multiple Choice

When Cattell used factor analysis to reduce the number of trait descriptive adjectives in his pool, he was combining the _____ approaches.

• A)lexical and statistical
• B)theoretical and statistical
• C)act frequency and statistical
• D)theoretical and act frequency

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