Allport's personal-document technique involves the use of:
a. dreams.
b. written or spoken records.
c. video transcriptions of interviews.
d. questionnaires.
Question 2One of the assessment methods Allport extensively relied on was:
a. the multivariate approach.
c. the personal-document technique.
b. participant and risk sampling.
d. dream analysis.
Question 3Identify a true statement based on Allport's view on the ultimate and necessary goal of life.
a. Catharsis is reached by reducing tension while seeking new challenges.
b. Unique traits and common traits are combined into personal dispositions.
c. The reward is in the process of achieving a goal rather than reaching it.
d. Our environment supplies the temperament required to achieve the goal.
Question 4Allport's image of human nature is:
a. highly pessimistic, as it is related to childhood experiences.
b. that the ultimate goal of life is to increase tension.
c. deterministic, allowing little free will in deliberations about the future.
d. one that denies a relationship between heredity and personality.
Question 5Allport took a(n) _____ stance on the question of free will versus determinism.
a. extreme
c. moderate
b. fatalistic
d. radical
Question 6Allport believed that emotionally healthy adults were:
a. no longer victimized by what happened to them in their early years.
b. guided primarily by unconscious forces of the superego.
c. those in whom the personality is undifferentiated from childhood experiences.
d. those who avoid self-objectification.
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