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Essentials of Understanding Psychology 7th ch 10 in text questions part 3

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Reliability refers to what?   the measurement consistency test  
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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  
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Used by psychologist to define the most meaningful way of discriminating between one person's personality and another's   Personality tests  
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one of the best example of a self-report measure   Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 MMPI-2  
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What are self report measures?   psychologists ask people about a relatively small sample of their behavior  
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True or False: There are wrong answers on the MMPI-2 test   FALSE  
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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  
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Who is Hermann Rorschach   Swiss psychiatrist who devised the Rorschach test which is the best known projective test using a series of symmetrical stimuli  
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What is the TAT?   Thematic Apperception Test-projective test which uses a series of pictures which a person is asked to write a story  
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True or False: An employer should rely heavily on personality testing   False  
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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  
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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  
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