The term "personality" refers to

a. a particular pattern of thinking and behaving that prevails across time and situations,
differentiating one person from another.
b. the different categories into which personality characteristics can be assigned.
c. an enduring personal characteristic that reveals itself in a particular pattern of behavior
across a variety of situations.
d. individual differences in cognition and behavior.
e. one's developmental experiences and physical characteristics that combine to produce
uniqueness.


a. a particular pattern of thinking and behaving that prevails across time and
situations, differentiating one person from another.

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a.  True   b.  False

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a. the majority of scores are high c. the majority of scores fall in the middle b. the majority of scores are low d. all scores fall in the middle range

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Which of the following is a finding that may be confounded with the finding that African Americans consistently score approximately one standard deviation below Caucasian Americans on standardized tests of intelligence?

a. Children from lower socioeconomic classes obtain lower IQ scores than children from the middle and upper classes. b. Children from the middle socioeconomic classes obtain lower IQ scores than children from the lower and upper classes. c. African American adults, as well as children, tend to score one standard deviation below Caucasian Americans. d. Caucasian American adults, as well as children, tend to score one standard deviation above African Americans.

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a. 25 c. 35 b. 30 d. 40

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