Allport's image of human nature is:

a. highly pessimistic, as it is related to childhood experiences.
b. that the ultimate goal of life is to increase tension.
c. deterministic, allowing little free will in deliberations about the future.
d. one that denies a relationship between heredity and personality.

ANS: B
FEEDBACK: To Allport, the ultimate and necessary goal of life is not to reduce tension, as Freud proposed, but rather to increase tension, impelling us to continually seek new sensations and challenges. When we have met one challenge, we are motivated to seek another.