Because two categories (or even several) are often inadequate

to fully capture differences in personality, which of the following tends to be more informative than classifying persons into two or three types?
a. rating people on a list of traits
b. determining their archetype
c. determining their actualization potential
d. analyzing fixations through psychoanalytic techniques


ANSWER: a

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