One criticism of the trait perspective of personality is the _________ controversy, which focuses on the question of whether individual behaviors are more influenced by contextual factors than by personality traits

a. diathesis-stress
b. genetic-environment interplay
c. person-situation
d. nature vs nurture

Answer: C

Psychology

You might also like to view...

According to the article A Family Affair about working mothers, the primary research study found that mothers who did not work at all generally had:

(a) higher SES than working mothers (b) fewer children than working mothers (c) children with lower test scores than the children of working mothers (d) many cultural and social activities compared to the mothers who worked

Psychology

If you are trying to recall the concept "test anxiety" for

your final psychology exam, you are more likely to mistakenly write "test nervousness" or "test worry" than "text anxiety" or "tent anxiety" because information for your psychology final is most likely stored in long-term memory a. phonetically. b. on the basis of visual images. c. procedurally. d. on the basis of meaning.

Psychology