Discuss how academic traditions foster research in personality.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Academic traditions create favorable conditions for particular research to occur and this helps the development of scientific knowledge. It also helps to support a theory.
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the four major types of knowledge relevant to the study of personality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Personality Theories and Academic Traditions
Difficulty Level: Hard
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