Compassion was the overriding trait of Mother Theresa's personality. According to Gordon Allport, when a trait, such as Mother Theresa's compassion, is so basic and dominant that all of a person's behavior can be traced to that trait, the trait is called a __________ trait
a. common
b. cardinal
c. source
d. primary
B
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a. common sense. c. a subgoal analysis. b. an algorithm. d. an analogy.
During the time when infants show a clear-cut interest in their primary caregivers, usually their mothers, and react with distress when mothers leave them, is referred t by all of the following terms except
a. asocial attachment. c. separation distress. b. separation attachment. d. separation protest.
Which of the following personality measures is considered a projective test?
A. Rorschach inkblot test B. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) C. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) D. NEO-PI-R
When Alzheimer's disease destroys parts of the temporal lobes, ______.
A. it destroys procedural memory B. this cuts off the hippocampus from the rest of the brain C. this cuts off the frontal lobes, decreasing attention D. this explains the difficulties in motor ability experienced by some patients