After taking the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2, Vince tells his daughter, a graduate student in psychology, that the test contained some "strange" items. He can't imagine anyone giving an answer different than the one he gave
When Vince asks why those items are in the test, 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 responding in unusual ways.
d) The MMPI-2 contains a number of experimental items that are used in developing future versions of the test.
C
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a. true experiment. b. quasi-experiment. c. naturalist observation. d. interview.
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a. He developed the Army Alpha and Beta tests. b. He created separate tests for men and women. c. He created separate tests for heritable and non-heritable intelligence. d. He resolved some of the psychometric issues in earlier intelligence measures.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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A) Information-processing B) Piagetian C) Psychoanalytic D) Psychometric