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Eup ch10-3Text Quest
Essentials of Understanding Psychology 7th ch 10 in text questions part 3
Question | Answer |
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Reliability refers to what? | the measurement consistency test |
What are norms? | standards of test performance that permit the comparison of one person's score on a test with the scores of others who have taken the same test |
Used by psychologist to define the most meaningful way of discriminating between one person's personality and another's | Personality tests |
one of the best example of a self-report measure | Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 MMPI-2 |
What are self report measures? | psychologists ask people about a relatively small sample of their behavior |
True or False: There are wrong answers on the MMPI-2 test | FALSE |
True or False: To create the MMPI-2 test the authors asked groups of psychiatric patients with a specific diagnosis to complete a large number of items. Then they picked what differentiated them from a comparison group. | TRUE |
Who is Hermann Rorschach | Swiss psychiatrist who devised the Rorschach test which is the best known projective test using a series of symmetrical stimuli |
What is the TAT? | Thematic Apperception Test-projective test which uses a series of pictures which a person is asked to write a story |
True or False: An employer should rely heavily on personality testing | False |
Three points to remember about personality testing. | understand what test measures, tests are not always accurate, no decision should be based on any one test |
True or False: No single test can provide an understanding of the intricacies of someone's personality without considering a good deal more information than can be provided in a single testing session. | True |