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Tazate

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on: Jun 21, 2018
Allport believed that personality traits are often revealed spontaneously through:
 
  a. introspection.
  c. coping behavior.
  b. Freudian slips.
  d. expressive behavior.

Question 2

Allport's idiographic approach was the study of:
 
  a. genetics and heredity.
  b. the unconscious forces shaping personality.
  c. childhood activities and experiences.
  d. the individual case.


kaillie

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

ANS: D
FEEDBACK: Allport conducted considerable research on what he called expressive behavior, described as behavior that expresses our personality traits. Expressive behavior is spontaneous and seemingly purposeless behavior, usually displayed without our conscious awareness.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
FEEDBACK: Allport favored the idiographic approach, that is, the study of the individual case, as indicated by his use of personal documents. However, he did also use some nomothetic methods involving the statistical analysis of differences among large samples of subjects when he believed them to be appropriate.


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