Professor Benvolio's personality course emphasizes the importance of Gordon Allport's contributions to the field of psychology. Professor Benvolio would be most likely to agree that ________
a. people fail to understand the power of culture on behavior, and so they attribute another person's mysterious actions to the individual's personality rather than cultural norms.
b. repression occurs when a person's own unacceptable or threatening feelings are repressed and then attributed to someone else.
c. the price of free will is often anxiety and despair, which is why many people try to escape from freedom into narrow certainties.
d. most individuals have five to ten central traits that reflect a characteristic way of behaving, dealing with others, and reacting to new situations.
Answer: d
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a. temporal b. parietal c. occipital d. frontal
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