Effective research on personality requires two kinds of efforts or approaches. They are

a. classifying people into certain groups, and distinguishing the features of the groups.
b. identifying personality characteristics and determining the variables that
produce and control them.
c. relating information learned from animal models and distinguishing the
differences between those models and different human populations.
d. measuring the differences in personalities between people and relating
those data to the development of specific types of personality traits.
e. classifying people into certain groups and studying them longitudinally to
determine how they are changed by subsequent experience.

b. identifying personality characteristics and determining the
variables that produce and control them.

Psychology

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a. phallic b. genital c. ego d. anal

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Ten-year-old Benjamin is often nervous about bringing report cards home to his parents. Although his parents say they love him, he feels that they only really love him when he obtains excellent grades in school. Based on the theory developed by Carl Rogers, Benjamin perceives his parents' affection as

a. conditional, and he is likely to develop congruence in his self-concept. b. unconditional, and he is likely to develop incongruence in his self-concept. c. unconditional, and he is likely to develop congruence in his self-concept. d. conditional, and he is likely to develop incongruence in his self-concept.

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