Effective research on personality requires two kinds of efforts or approaches. They are
a. classifying people into certain groups, and distinguishing the features of the groups.
b. identifying personality characteristics and determining the variables that
produce and control them.
c. relating information learned from animal models and distinguishing the
differences between those models and different human populations.
d. measuring the differences in personalities between people and relating
those data to the development of specific types of personality traits.
e. classifying people into certain groups and studying them longitudinally to
determine how they are changed by subsequent experience.
b. identifying personality characteristics and determining the
variables that produce and control them.
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A) vestibular sense B) kinesthetic sense C) precognitive sense D) telepathic sense
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A. schoolchildren were given antismoking literature and questionnaires to take home to their fathers. B. children wrote letters to their fathers asking them to quit smoking. C. children submitted monthly reports on their fathers' smoking habits to their schools. D. photos of the fathers who continued smoking were published in the school newspapers.
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a. 6 b. 11 c. 15 d. 18