Describe the major difference between Cattell's and Eysenck's approaches to developing measures of personality

What will be an ideal response?


Cattell used an empirical approach in which he collected ratings on a variety of trait words, factor
analyzed them, and then named the factors that emerged.
Eysenck started with well-developed ideas about which measures to include, factor analyzed them, and
then named the factors that emerged.

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The items on two IQ tests might be quite different because

a. IQ tests are unique to each test taker. b. test takers interpret questions differently. c. the developers defined IQ differently. d. of errors during the test development process.

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Preoperational thought is to ___________ asconcrete operational thought is ___________

a. descriptive; logical. b. figurative; descriptive. c. logical; descriptive. d. logical; figurative.

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Research on interaction theory indicates that ______ may best explain why depressed people

are often rejected by others. a. unrealistic demands by the depressed person b. a lack of social skills in the depressed person c. a lack of emotional energy in the depressed person d. insensitivity by those surrounding the depressed person

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Which of the following is an example of a test battery?

a. a clinician rating the symptoms a patient exhibits using a standardized survey. b. a patient being assessed on what he or she perceives as the cause of his or her difficulties. c. a patient evaluating his/her own symptoms by answering a series of questions, followed by a clinical interview and psychophysiological assessment. d. a patient being asked a series of questions by a clinician that may differ across patients.

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