Allport emphasized the importance of:
a. the present and the future.
c. data collected from neurotics.
b. the unconscious in normal mature adults.
d. past childhood conflicts.
ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Allport considered personality to be discrete, or discontinuous. Not only is each person distinct from all others, but each adult is also divorced from his or her past. This unique view of Allport's emphasizes the conscious rather than the unconscious, and the present and future rather than the past. He recognized.
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