Personality tests are better used for ________ than ________
(a) employment decisions; prediction
(b) psychic predictions; employment decisions
(c) prediction; understanding the nature of personality
(d) understanding the nature of personality; prediction
C
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A. to stimulate olfactory receptors B. to distinguish between colors of different wavelength frequencies C. to close spinal gates and prevent pain information from being relayed to the brain D. to amplify vibrations from the tympanic membrane
Gracie just won 250 dollars in a raffle. As she was cheerfully walking home from work, she saw a homeless man and immediately the stereotypical characteristics of down on his luck, mentally ill, and needy came to mind
According to Stroessner and Mackie (1992), this would be an example of how people in a ________mood are more complacent and therefore more likely to engage in stereotyping. a. bad b. neutral c. tearful d. good
When you ask experts to rate the extent to which individual questions are essential to measure the testing universe, you are gathering evidence of validity based on ______.
A. relations with other variables B. internal structure C. test content D. response processes
Dr. Harris conducts an experiment on psychophysics using participants above age 65. Because he cannot include all persons above age 65 in his experiment, he selects a ________ of participants for his experiment.
A. population B. subgroup C. target group D. sample