How does a psychologist identify people who are lying on the MMPI?
a. By comparing MMPI answers to answers on other personality tests
b. By measuring heart rate, breathing rate, and electrical conduction on the skin
c. By comparing answers to observations of actual behavior
d. By true-false questions about rare virtues and common faults
d
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What did Calhoun mean by "the behavioral sink?"
A. The shape of the experimental setting was like that of a sink (round with slanted walls), forcing rats to associate more than they normally would in the middle. B. The degree of abnormal behavior among the high-density rats was so extreme that it seemed like a sinkhole or pit of ever-degenerating behavior C. The rats in the high-density group failed to carry out their usual cleaning and hygiene behaviors. D. The rats' behaviors represented a new low in the treatment of animal research subjects.
The method of item analysis which looks at the correlation between performance on an item (correct or incorrect) and total test score is
a. the extreme group method. b. the tetrachoric method. c. the point-biserial method. d. the item characteristic curve method.
To be considered as standardized, a test must do which of the following?
a) Be given in a culture fair manner. b) Be given the same way every time. c) Be given only to those who meet its standards. d) Be given according to the cultural standards of the test-takers.
In ________ play, children use an object to represent something else
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