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Chapter 2

1. What parts of your personality would be difficult to capture with a self-report questionnaire?
Would any of the alternative methods do a better job?

- For being hard in motivating myself. Alternative methods is good for me how others
sees me.

2. Why is it important for personality scales to be reliable and valid? What would happen if
researchers, individuals, and businesses relied on scales that were not reliable and valid?

- It can explain how other people react to a particular problematic situation and assess of
a person personality.
- If the scales in not reliable and valid they will have a hard time to understand the person
personality, how that person will react to a critical situation and affect other in their
surroundings.

3. A researcher finds a correlation between going to religious services and better health. What are
the three possibilities for causation in that study? What are some possible third or confounding
variables

- Worry free gives good health


- Good Health causes worry free
- Pastoral Counseling – counseling make us worry free and give good health

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