Entire fields of psychology focus on the _____ that distinguish one person's interaction with the world from another's
A) nomothetic applications
Incorrect. Your book does not reference something called nomothetic applications, but such a term would refer to commonalities between people, not individual differences.
B) individual differences
Correct. Such differences between our reactions to various encounters with the world around us are what underlie much of psychological research.
C) correlative traits
D) objective traits
Answer: B
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