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Personality Psychology Domains Of Knowledge About Human Nature, 3rd Canadian Edition, 3e By Randy L
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arsen, David Buss, David King (Test Bank All Chapters, 100% Original Verified, A+ Grade)Answers at the en
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Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1) Features of personality that differentiate one person from another usually take the form of
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B) trait-descriptive adjectives wl


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2) If I describe Juan as "possessive" or Anita as "friendly," I am employing the use of
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3) How many trait-descriptive adjectives are there in the English language?
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4) Psychologists have found it difficult to define personality because
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B) personality has a commonsense definition that psychologists find hard to falsify.
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C) the idea of studying human personality is a rather new concept in psychology.
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D) any definition of personality needs to be sufficiently comprehensive to include
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a multitude of concepts.
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5) Research on personality traits asks all of these questions EXCEPT
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A) how many fundamental personality traits there are.
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6) Philippe walks the same path home after work every day at the same time. To state that
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he will most likely take the same route at the same time next Wednesday is using the
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nature of personality traits.
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A) descriptive
B) explanatory
C) predictive
D) individualistic

7) Mike makes several social errors at a party. He calls the host by the wrong name, spills
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his red wine on the carpet, and insults the guest of honour. A researcher labels Mike's beh
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aviour as "socially unskilled." This labelling of Mike's behaviour utilizes the
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research approach to personality traits.
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A) explanatory
B) descriptive
C) intuitive
D) presumptive

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B) average
C) overt
D) outlying

9) A talkative person will
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C) talk more than a quiet person in theaters.
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D) talk more, on average, than a quiet person.
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10) To say that someone will tend to display a trait with regularity is to say that the person
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11) Which of the following questions does research on personality traits NOT emphasize?
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A) How many fundamental traits are there?
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B) How are traits organized within individuals?
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D) How are all persons similar? wl wl wl wl




12) Psychological mechanisms differ from traits in that mechanisms
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C) do not have decision rules.
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D) are biologically "hard wired."
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13) Which of the following is NOT part of most personality mechanisms?
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C) Inputs
D) Outputs

14) The trait of courageousness is an especially good example of
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A) an adaptive trait.
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C) how traits are activated only under certain conditions.
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D) how traits change over time.
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C) both outside and inside the person.
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D) inside or outside, depending on the person.
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16) To say that someone has the trait of happiness, you need to know that the person
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A) is happy at a given moment.
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