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james0929

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In the context of the personal-document technique used by Allport, computer analysis of the letters from the middle-aged woman identified as Jenny:
 
  a. failed to verify his subjective assessment of traits.
  b. yielded results comparable to his eight prominent categories of traits.
  c. expanded his eight trait categories to more than 200 traits.
  d. proved irrelevant to his initial assessment of the eight categories of traits.

Question 2

Allport's personal-document technique involves the use of:
 
  a. dreams.
  b. written or spoken records.
  c. video transcriptions of interviews.
  d. questionnaires.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
FEEDBACK: Allport's most famous case is an analysis of a collection of more than 300 letters written over a 12-year period by a middle-aged woman identified as Jenny. One of Allport's students performed a computer analysis on the letters to find categories of words that might indicate the existence of a particular trait. The computer analysis yielded eight prominent traits in Jenny's personality that were similar to the categories Allport had identified.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
FEEDBACK: Allport relied heavily on the personal-document technique and the Study of Values. The personal-document technique involves examining diaries, autobiographies, letters, literary compositions, and other samples of a person's written or spoken records to determine the number and kinds of personality traits.




james0929

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Reply 2 on: Jun 21, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


connor417

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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