How can personality be measured without using self-report questionnaires?

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Answer: Personality can be measured using several alternatives to self-report measures. Informant reports where parents or teachers provide information about someone can be useful, particularly for those not old enough or self-aware enough to fill out a questionnaire on their own. Clinical interviews can yield information about a personality disorder. Personality can be measured through archival records, or the collection of data on someone's behaviors. Other measures such as archival or life outcomes data, projective tests, and physiological measures can provide information regarding someone's personality as well.

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The theory of alcohol myopia suggests that consuming alcohol:

A) causes the drinker to become more nearsighted. B) causes people to react in simple ways to complex situations. C) enables the drinker to relax inhibitions. D) leads the drinker to become socially inhibited.

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Responses to warmer core temperatures are coordinated by the ____________________, labeled #____________________, and responses to cooler core temperature are coordinated by the ____________________, labeled Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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You are the African American president of your student union at a large university. In "response" to a speaker about the history of the Black Power movement, a student organization called the First Amendment Society wants to invite a guest speaker who advocates white supremacy on the same night. The college president claims to understand your position, but tells you that you either need to cancel both speeches or let them both proceed. Use an ethics of care argument to convince the president that the Black Power speech should proceed. Then use a utilitarian argument. Finally convince the president that your argument is not egoistic or relative.

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