While taking the Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory, Vince notices that it contains certain questions that are asked several times in different ways. He asks his daughter, who is a graduate student in psychology, why that is. What is his daughter likely to say?
a) Truly psychotic individuals expect to find "strange" items on tests.
b) Those items contain hidden content that is not apparent to normal people.
c) Some items are used to determine if test takers are trying to "fake" the test by not reading.
d) The MMPI contains a number of experimental items that are used in developing future versions of the test.
C
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a. Linguistic b. Logical-mathematical c. Musical d. Spatial
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a. numbness or an extreme sensitivity to cold, heat, or pain b. the sound of footsteps coming from an empty room c. a belief that aliens are living in the attic d. seeing a bowl change colors several times, then turn into smoke
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a. stereotyping c. covariation b. actor-observer effect d. the fundamental attribution error
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FIll in the blank with correct word.