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krzymel

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A critic of personality inventories says, These tests have no way of detecting faking or defensiveness in the individuals who take them. Worse, they never include norms for responses of people from different cultural groups. Which response to these criticisms is accurate?
 
  a. The MMPI-2 has both of the features the critic says are absent.
 b. The critic is correct about the problem of faking but not about norms from different cultures.
  c. The critic is confusing the problems of projective tests with those of inventories.
 d. Current research supports what the critic is saying.

Question 2

A psychologist says, The fixed alternatives for answers prevent test-takers from presenting a true picture of themselves. What kind of assessment tool is being criticized?
 
  a. unstructured interviews
 b. projective personality tests
  c. naturalistic observation
 d. personality inventories



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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