Adler believed that psychology tests to assess personality were:
a. artificial and ambiguous.
b. useful in revealing unconscious desires.
c. excellent at diagnosing psychological types.
d. unnecessarily based on developing therapists' intuition.
ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Adler had no desire to use psychological tests to assess personality. He argued that tests create artificial situations that provide ambiguous results. He did, however, support tests of memory and intelligence; it was tests of personality he criticized.
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