Why is it so difficult to create a truly global measure of personality?
a. Because the different languages in different cultures do not always have words that can be translated equivalently and thus there is no way to measure personality uniformly across cultures.
b. Because there are fundamental differences in the way Western and non-Western cultures understand personality that are influenced by various cultural factors.
c. Because concepts like self-efficacy, unconditional positive regard, and reciprocal determinism have been found to have no statistical validity in any culture outside of the United States of America.
d. Because the theories of Sigmund Freud created such a backlash against American personality theorists in the early 1900s that there has been no reconciliation of theories from different cultures.
Answer: B
You might also like to view...
The process by which one's expectations about a person eventually lead that person to behave in ways that confirm those expectations is called a
a. representativeness heuristic. b. confirmation bias. c. self-fulfilling prophecy. d. base rate fallacy.
Regarding addictive drugs, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. None of the addictive drugs have legitimate or healthful uses. b. Some addictive drugs have been used for centuries in various cultures, in a search of insight. c. The drugs that most likely lead to physical dependence are alcohol, amphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine, codeine, heroin, methadone, morphine, and nicotine. d. Any psychoactive drug can result in a psychological dependence.
Describe Walter’s temperament traits, according to Cattell’s trait approach.
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following represents the correct order for the sections in an APA format paper
a. Abstract, Introduction, Results, Method, Discussion b. Abstract, Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion c. Abstract, Introduction, Discussion, Method, Results d. Abstract, Discussion, Introduction, Method, Results