Question

A person does not "have or not have" a personality trait; instead, a person can possess varying degrees of it. this is because personality traits reflect ________________ rather than distinct personality types.

Answer 1

The answer is most likely to be:

continuous distributions

Completing the sentence:

A person does not "have or not have" a personality trait;

instead, a person can possess varying degrees of it. This is because personality traits reflect continuous distributions rather than distinct personality types.

Instead of choosing qualitative differences or stable characteristics, we choose continuous distributions as it is the correct answer.