Briefly describe the “Big Five.”
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Answer: Researchers refined Cattell’s work on 16 factors into 5 personality factors. They are labeled “big” because they are quite broad. Each of the Big Five factors describes personality at a high level of abstraction, and these are further broken down into smaller lower-level traits. When personality descriptions such as the California Q-sort or the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator are analyzed statistically they often derive five clusters of descriptions. If there are universally five, or so, types or sets of traits, then there is likelihood that they are biological or genetic in nature to a significant degree. Currently a five-factor taxonomy is the most widely researched.
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Analyze some of the issues involved in establishing ethnic identity. What are some particular challenges faced by emerging-adult immigrants when establishing ethnic identity?
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The ventricles, spaces in the brain that are filled with cerebrospinal fluid, are typically larger than normal in the brains of individuals suffering from
A) schizophrenia. B) dissociative personality disorder. C) major depression. D) PTSD.