To Develop the MMPI, Researchers Selected Questions That

question 77

Multiple Choice

To develop the MMPI, researchers selected questions that

• A) pertained to aspects of personality that were important in the best established theories of personality.
• B) people with certain disorders answered one way, and normal people answered another way.
• C) were simple enough to be understood even by children or brain damaged adults.
• D) were sufficiently open-ended to allow each person to answer a different way.

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Definitions:

Anisole

An organic compound consisting of a methoxybenzene group, used as a precursor in the synthesis of other chemicals.

Ortho

In chemistry, a designation used in nomenclature to indicate adjacent or 1,2- substitution in the structure of benzene ring compounds.

Para

In organic chemistry, this term refers to the positioning of substituents on an aromatic ring where two groups are separated by two carbon atoms, leading to a 1,4-relationship.

Bromination of Benzene

A chemical reaction where bromine is added to benzene, typically requiring a catalyst like iron bromide, to form bromobenzene.