The behavioral approach to personality postulates that personality is
A. the combination of environmental circumstances and unconscious impulses.
B. a function of how we feel about conditions in the environment.
C. the consistent patterns of behavior we engage in.
D. the result of inherited predispositions to behave in certain ways.
C
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a. to allow the experimenter to manipulate participant variables b. to allow the experimenter to manipulate environmental variables c. to help control extraneous variables d. to increase the reliability of the outcome measures
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a. speaking clearly b. thinking about what you are going to say c. listening d. knowing your audience
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