Allport noted that _____ supplies the raw material of personality, while _____ shapes the material into finished products

a. health; heredity
b. society; self-actualization
c. genetics; the social environment
d. parental influence; a restricting environment


ANS: C
FEEDBACK: Even Allport and Cattell, who inaugurated the trait approach to personality, agreed on the importance of the environment. Allport noted that although genetics supplies the raw material of personality, it is the social environment that shapes the material into the finished product.

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