Which of the following statements is true about the significance given to social and environmental factors by the personality theorists?
a. Adler suggested that women raised in a matriarchal culture might have higher self-esteem.
c. Cattell argued that environmental factors ultimately affect all of his 16 personality factors to some extent.
b. Horney noted that social environment shapes the raw materials of personality provided by genetics into finished products.
d. Allport's eight stages of psychosocial development are innate, but the environment determines the ways in which they are realized.
ANS: C
FEEDBACK: Cattell argued that heredity is more important for some of his 16 personality factors than for others, but environmental influences will ultimately affect every factor to some extent. Erikson's eight stages of psychosocial development are innate, but the environment determines the ways in which those genetically based stages are realized.
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