Which is NOT a major shortcoming of self-reports?
a. Standardizing the self-report measure results in difficulty in comparing the responses of two different individuals who have completed the self-report.
b. Respondents may give socially desirable answers so the researchers think more positively of them.
c. These types of reports are difficult to use with very young children.
d. Language abilities between people of different ages can make interpretation of results difficult.
a
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Erikson argued that each psychosocial stage presents which of the following that the individual must resolve?
A. crisis B. fixation C. riddle D. temptation
According to the discussion of atypical prenatal development,
a. almost all intersexed individuals request surgery to make their external genitals consistent with their sex chromosomes. b. all infants are either male or female at birth, because hormonal and internal reproductive systems that have been atypical early in prenatal development will adjust themselves during the month prior to birth. c. many adult intersexuals emphasize that intersexed children should not be forced into either a male or a female gender category. d. when a more careful examination is performed on an infant originally classified as an intersexual, that infant can be clearly categorized as either male or female.
In the context of measuring personality, which of the following statements is true of the NEO PI-3?
a) It is a 240-item instrument in which respondents rate the degree to which they agree or disagree that the item is characteristic of them. b) It is a statistical technique that allows researchers to group items on a questionnaire. c) It is a test that consists of 180 items rated on a seven point scale. d) It is a self-report personality test and can be used as a clinical instrument to help diagnose psychiatric disorders.
Establishing the reliability of a measurement procedure by using the procedure to measure the same individuals on two separate occasions and comparing the two sets of scores is known as ____ reliability
a. split-half b. internal c. test-retest d. inter-rater