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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The automatic system of the duplex mind makes use of a series of mental shortcuts in order to obtain quick information about the likelihood of different outcomes. These are known as ____
a. heuristics b. scripts c. attributions d. schemas
The Snellen and the Landolt rings are used to assess
a. night vision. b. visual acuity. c. color vision. d. depth perception.
People from which area are least likely to be social loafers?
A. Japan B. USA C. Germany D. France
Apprehending objects and events in the environment, sensing them, identifying them, and reacting to them implies the process of
a. sensation. b. learning. c. thinking. d. perception.