Mischel and Shoda's Cognitive-Affective Personality System Holds That

question 68

Multiple Choice

Mischel and Shoda's cognitive-affective personality system holds that

• A)thoughts and emotions act independently to produce behavior.
• B)apparent inconsistencies in people's behavior reflect stable patterns of variation and can be used to predict behavior.
• C)apparent inconsistencies in people's behavior are due to random error that invalidates any attempts to predict behavior.
• D)behaviors are an outgrowth of stable,global personality traits-both cognitive and affective.

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