Mrs. Bauer is normally a very happy person, but she recently learned her son had a chronic illness and has been somewhat gloomy and pessimistic. This behavior is typical of a personality ____

a. trait
b. type
c. state
d. concept


c

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You like to fish. Sometimes, it takes you 30 minutes to catch a fish; other times, you catch a fish every 5 minutes. Fishing, in this case, is on a ____ schedule of reinforcement

a. fixed-interval c. variable-interval b. fixed-ratio d. variable-ratio

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About _____ of people report sleep problems

a) half b) one-third c) one-tenth d) three-fourths

Psychology

According to Gordon Allport, the number of central traits that most individuals have is:

a. one. b. five to ten. c. twenty. d. fifty to sixty.

Psychology

Research on Lee and Berscheid’s models of love has been hampered by . . .

a. A lack of interest in love b. A lack of precise measurement instruments that can discriminate one type of love from another c. A lack of willing participants to discuss such a personal topic as love d. A lack of statistical models that may be validly applied to the topic of love

Psychology