People Who Take Personality Inventories Can Lie in Order to Create

question 248

Multiple Choice

People who take personality inventories can lie in order to create a good impression.This best illustrates that the objectivity in scoring personality inventories does not guarantee that they

• A) have validity.
• B) are empirically derived.
• C) assess several different traits.
• D) have been subjected to factor analysis.

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