Why is it best to think of the Big Five personality traits as being on a continuum?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Labels and descriptors can be useful but they leave out a lot of important information. Most people do not score at the extreme ends on any trait. That is why each person's trait is scored on a continuum from low to high. Being "extraverted" means scoring higher on a dimension ranging from introversion to extraversion than someone who scores lower on that same dimension.
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A child is in the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development. If Piaget's model is correct, the child will next move to the ________ stage
a. adult b. preoperational c. concrete operational d. formal operational
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a) are genetically identical. b) are genetically different. c) will be of different sexes. d) are more likely to occur when a woman is taking fertility drugs.
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A) controls tongue movements required for speech production. B) is unrelated to language production or comprehension. C) controls speech comprehension. D) is more strongly associated with comprehension of nonverbal than of verbal sound.