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clmills979

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on: Jun 21, 2018
According to Allport, personality traits are:
 
  a. useful fictions we create to understand ourselves.
  b. real and exist within each of us.
  c. essentially just a theoretical concept.
  d. inborn instincts.

Question 2

Allport considered _____ to be predispositions to respond, in the same or a similar manner, to different kinds of stimuli.
 
  a. reinforcements
  b. complexes
  c. sublimations
  d. traits


Chelseyj.hasty

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Reply #1 on: Jun 21, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
FEEDBACK: In Allport's view, personality traits are real and exist within each of us. They are not theoretical constructs or labels made up to account for behavior.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
FEEDBACK: Allport considered personality traits to be predispositions to respond, in the same or a similar manner, to different kinds of stimuli. In other words, traits are consistent and enduring ways of reacting to our environment.


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