Which of the following is true about the basic factors of personality?

a. They are measured by the 16 PF Test.
c. They are source traits.
b. They can be tested objectively.
d. All of these are correct.


ANS: D
FEEDBACK: After more than two decades of intensive factor-analytic research, Cattell (1965) identified 16 source traits as the basic factors of personality. These factors are best known in the form in which they are most often used, in an objective personality test called the Sixteen Personality Factor (16 PF) Questionnaire.

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