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Personality traits are distinguishing qualities or characteristics that are the embodiment of an individual’s. They are your habitual patterns of behavior, temperament and emotion.

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Practice Questions (9)

What would be a groundbreaking approach to examine potential effects of nature versus nurture in determining personality traits?
Which psychological concept best explains why siblings raised in the same household can have different personality traits despite sharing similar environments?
What underlies the differences in personality traits among individuals?
What does research suggest about personality traits across a lifespan?
Who would most likely believe that personality traits are mostly stable throughout lifetime?
Which theory of personality suggests that individual behavior and personality traits can be directly traced to inherited genetic structures?
How would a sociologist studying social structures potentially explain the development of personality traits according to trait theory?
In what way does evolutionary biology enhance our comprehension of various personality traits?
How does contemporary research challenge the view that personality traits are consistent across situations?

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