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Trait taxonomies and trait issues
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True or False



1

Dispositions can be thought of as causes of behavior.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
2

The act frequency approach views traits as causes of behavior.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
3

The theoretical approach to identifying traits looks in natural language.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
4

According to the lexical approach, important traits occur in many languages and have many synonyms.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
5

Eysenck's hierarchical model of personality included sixteen traits.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
6

Cattell used factor analysis to identify traits across different types of data.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
7

In Leary's circumplex, love and dominance are bipolar to one another.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
8

In a circumplex, items that do not correlate are orthogonal.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
9

The five factor model has been replicated across different item formats.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE