Question

The approach to personality test construction that examines a set of correlations among many items in order to identify which items are highly correlated is called the ________ approach.

Answer 1

Answer:

factor analytic

Explanation:

Factor analysis is a statistical tool or measure, it basically functions to find the variability among the related or co-related variables. It provides for unobserved variables in the observed and related variables.

In simple terms if there are 10 variables which are co-related and accordingly there has to be a connection formed and we find that out of these 10 variables 3 are not related with high extent as the remaining 7, this factor analytic approach identifies these 3 variables.