Identify three ways in which personality psychologists use assessment
What will be an ideal response?
(1) To portray personalities of specific persons
(2) To study personality variables and their influence on behavior
(3) To use in applied psychology, e.g., as a basis for hiring decisions or to diagnose psychopathology.
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The prototype approach suggests that a concept is classified as a member of a category if
a. the super-ordinate critical feature is matched. b. it matches your overall emotional evaluation of the concept. c. it is similar to an ideal or most representative example of the category. d. storing the concept as a member of the category minimizes the time and effort required to process information. e. the concept exactly matches with the dictionary definition of the category.
Anthropologists would posit that social psychologists cannot understand human behavior fully unless they understand the ____
a. genetic makeup of the populations under study b. relationship between humans and animals c. biological basis of the behavior d. cultural context in which that behavior occurs