Which of the following describes one possible strength of the trait and skills approach to personality?
A) It can be used to understand the contribution of genetic effects.
B) It simplifies personality to a small number of basic dimensions.
C) It underestimates variability across situations.
D) It is not biased toward multicultural studies.
E) It solves all problems related to the categorization of people's personalities.
B
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A. Joy and Trey will reinforce gender-typed behavior about equally. B. Joy is more likely to reinforce gender-typed behavior than Trey. C. Trey is more likely to reinforce gender-typed behavior than Joy. D. Neither Joy nor Trey will reinforce gender-typed behavior in their children.
The problem with using the GRE to determine whether students who have already been admitted to graduate school should be given their degrees is that
a. the criterion validity of the GRE is not well enough established. b. the sample size is too small. c. the causes of performance at the school where this procedure is used might be different than the causes of performance at the schools where the GRE was validated. d. this policy confuses the predictor and the criterion.
_____ communication is interpersonal communication that takes place via technology
a. Social networking c. Electronically mediated b. Modern d. Public
Joshua is designing an EEG study to examine how brain activity changes in response to a picture of a familiar versus novel face. In order to ensure that he can detect the brain response from the noise, what should Joshua do?
A. He should only record activity from the left brain hemisphere. B. He should present participants with several trials of both familiar and unique faces. C. He should only record brain activity from the right brain hemisphere. D. He should not use a computer to analyze his data.