DrPortillo's Research Team Is Using Various Methods to Assess the Trait

question 133

Multiple Choice

Dr.Portillo's research team is using various methods to assess the trait of extraversion.Dr.Portillo interpreting participants' responses to TAT pictures.Her postdoctoral research fellow is recording the number and length of conversations participants initiate in a laboratory situation.Finally,Dr.Portillo's graduate student is examining her own extraversion scores on a test of the Big Five dimensions.Which research team member is correctly paired with the type of personality assessment he or she is using?

• A)Dr.Portillo-self-report measure
• B)Postdoctoral research fellow-projective test
• C)Graduate student-self-report measure
• D)Dr.Portillo-behavioral assessment

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Definitions:

Vasoconstriction

The narrowing of blood vessels, which increases blood pressure by decreasing the diameter through which blood can flow.

Vasomotor Sympathetic

Pertaining to the control of blood vessel diameter by the sympathetic nervous system, affecting blood flow and pressure.

Baroreceptors

Sensory nerve endings located in the walls of blood vessels and the heart that detect changes in blood pressure and help regulate it.

Vasoconstriction

The narrowing of blood vessels, which increases blood pressure by reducing the volume of blood flow.