Why does Funder (2019) believe there are no perfect indicators of personality? What strategies can researchers use to deal with this concern?
What will be an ideal response?
There are no perfect indicators because all indicators are ambiguous. It is possible to gather clues to a person's personality, but there are always factors that can impact the accuracy of personality indicators. As a researcher, you could cross examine many types of data about the same person. On another hand, you could use the same scale more than once to increase reliability.
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a. more likely to display empathy and more likely to try to help strangers b. more likely to display empathy but less likely to try to help strangers c. less likely to display empathy but more likely to try to help strangers d. less likely to display empathy and less likely to try to help strangers
The goal of operant conditioning is to ____, while the goal in classical conditioning is to ____.
A. create an association between stimuli; create an association between behavior and consequences B. create an expectation that a conditioned stimulus will lead to behavior; increase or decrease the rate of some behavior C. decrease the rate of some behavior; increase the rate of some behavior D. increase or decrease the rate of some behavior; create a new response to a neutral stimulus
Once you have made a mistake and done something you wanted to stop doing, what is the best way to think about it?
a. Realize you need to further develop your willpower. b. Realize that your personality may limit your ability in this case. c. Realize that you maximize the temptation. d. Realize that pressures from the environment and your own lack of skill are theproblems.
Which of the following is the best example of the signal-to-noise ratio?
A) Lisa has to listen very carefully to hear her friend talking in the car. B) Bobby is shouting at the neighbor's dog that is digging up his yard. C) While listening to the television, Kate is also reading her textbook. D) Robyn has to shout over the boisterous crowd at the football game to be heard.