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khang

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An approach to personality would be called nomothetic if it
 
  A) focuses on characterizing the life-course of individuals.
  B) emphasizes a historical perspective.
  C) seeks to formulate laws that hold across individuals.
  D) seeks to characterize the uniqueness of each individual.
  E) is based on detailed and reliable testing systems.

Question 2

The quote that behaviorism has substituted for the erstwhile anthropomorphic view of the rat, a ratomorphic view of man implies that
 
  A) a behavioristic view of personality is completely without merit.
  B) behaviorism demeans our humanness with simple laws derived from rat studies.
  C) it is better to study rats than humans because there are fewer ethical issues involved.
  D) rats and humans are the same in terms of how they learn.
  E) we should not try to draw comparisons between humans and rats.


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hollysheppard095

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

C

Answer to Question 2

B


khang

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Reply 2 on: Jun 21, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Excellent

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