Practice question · True or false
Although extraversion is one of the Big Five dimensions today, the introversion-extraversion distinction actually originated decades earlier with Jung.
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- Recall which tradition first articulated the distinction.
- It predates the Big Five, coming from psychoanalysis.
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True
Why
True. Jung first articulated introversion-extraversion within psychoanalysis, and it was later absorbed into the Big Five. Assuming the concept began with the modern Big Five is the named pitfall.
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