Which of the following is a weakness of Walter Mischel's approach?
A) It does not explain what a correlation of 0.30 between behavior and personality actually means.
B) It assumes a fixed, simple model of behavior.
C) It assumes personality traits lead directly to behavior.
D) It assumes that a correlation of .30 is so small that it is not useful/meaningful.
E) All of these
E
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