Allport believed that personality traits are often revealed spontaneously through:
a. introspection.
c. coping behavior.
b. Freudian slips.
d. expressive behavior.
Question 2Allport'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.
Question 3Allport believed the best way to obtain reliable information on adult personality is through:
a. correlational approaches.
c. self-descriptions.
b. laboratory experiments.
d. dream analyses.
Question 4Allport and two colleagues developed an objective self-report assessment test called the _____.
a. Study of Values
c. Thematic Apperception Test
b. Study of Traits
d. 16PF Questionnaire
Question 5In 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.
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