If Personality Traits Are Biologically Based, This Would Imply That

question 23

Multiple Choice

If personality traits are biologically based, this would imply that they would be established relatively ________ in life and would change ________ across the lifespan.

• A) early; a great deal
• B) early; little
• C) late; a great deal
• D) late; little

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Definitions:

Proactive Interference

A phenomenon where old memories hinder the capacity to remember new information.

Retroactive Interference

The phenomenon where newly learned information interferes with the recall of information learned previously.

Misinformation Effect

The phenomenon in which a person's recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate due to post-event information.

Automatic Processing

The unconscious encoding of incidental or well-learned information without effort.