Which of the following is true according to Five-Factor Theory?
a) Core components of the personality system have nothing to do with biological factors such as genes or brain structure.
b) Characteristic adaptations are unaffected by external influences.
c) One's basic tendency for openness is biologically rooted and stable, but how one characteristically expresses it can change over time.
d) The various components of personality are static processes that interact with one another in only one predictable way throughout the person's lifetime.
Answer: c) One's basic tendency for openness is biologically rooted and stable, but how one characteristically expresses it can change over time.
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Howard's psychologist asks him to take a personality test. The test consists of a series of standardized multiple-choice items
The test also includes a section where Howard is asked to rate himself on a series of scales. It is most likely that this is a(n): a. projective test. b. objective test. c. Rorschach test. d. humanist test.
The extent to which a test gives the same score on retest is called
(a) reliability (b) predictive validity (c) construct validity (d) a measure of uniqueness of the whole person (e) all of these