With regard to historical determinism, Allport believed a person is:
a. motivated by the power of the id.
b. not in conscious control of the forces that motivate him or her.
c. pathological by nature and genetics.
d. not a prisoner of childhood conflicts and past experiences.
ANS: D
FEEDBACK: With regard to historical determinism—the importance of the past in determining the present—Allport said that we are not prisoners of childhood conflicts and past experiences, as Freud believed. Instead, we are guided more by the present and by our view of the future.
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