Professor Benvolio's personality course emphasizes the importance of Gordon Allport's contributions to the field of psychology. Professor Benvolio would be most likely to agree that:

A) people fail to understand the power of culture on behavior, and so they attribute another person's mysterious actions to the individual's personality rather than cultural norms.
B) repression occurs when a person's own unacceptable or threatening feelings are repressed and then attributed to someone else.
C) the price of free will is often anxiety and despair, which is why many people try to escape from freedom into narrow certainties.
D) most individuals have five to ten central traits that reflect a characteristic way of behaving, dealing

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Betty Canizares · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : D, Explanation :  Gordon Allport is known for his theory on personality traits, particularly the concept of central traits, which are the building blocks of an individual's personality. These central traits are few in number, typically five to ten, and they describe the consistent behaviors and patterns of an individual.

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