Breanne Is Ambitious and Susan Is Laid Back

question 110

Multiple Choice

Breanne is ambitious and Susan is laid back.These personality traits represent:

• A)different and unrelated personality factors.
• B)the endpoints of a single personality factor.
• C)different and related personality factors.
• D)Eysenck's two-factor model of personality.

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Definitions:

Confirmation Bias

A predisposition to identify, comprehend, prioritize, and recollect facts in ways that corroborate one’s existing beliefs or suppositions.

Overconfidence Bias

The tendency for an individual to overestimate their abilities, knowledge, or performance capabilities.

Hindsight Bias

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it, often referred to as the "I-knew-it-all-along" effect.

Pragmatics

The branch of linguistics focused on the ways in which context contributes to meaning, including how speakers use and understand statements.