What are the three components of McAdams Personality Structure?
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Dispositional Traits
Characteristic adaptations
Personal narrative or Identity
Nomothetics/Idiographics
Psychoticism
Extraversion
Neuroticism
Question 2
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Which of the following can be considered under the disposition traits described by McAdams?
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The 5 factor model
Eysencks Extraversion/Neuroticism/Psychoticism
Personal construct theory
Psychoanalysis
Humanistic psychology
Question 3
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What are the characteristics of the dispositional traits described by McAdams?
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Nomothetic
Stable
Idiographic
Flexible
Limited to subjective interpretations
Question 4
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McAdams' characteristic adaptations can be described as...
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Personal goals/motives
Coping strategies
Attachment styles
Values
A persons life story
Question 5
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McAdams considers his third structure 'Identity as life story', as being...
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Composed of stories that are central to our identity throughout life.
Stories that are essentially irrelevant to our identity.
Nomothetic and stable .
Containing a persons values or beliefs.
Question 6
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How well a measurement measures what it claims to measure is its [blank_start]validity[blank_end].
How well a measurement gets similar results across testing sessions and test users is its level of [blank_start]reliability[blank_end].