How Were Items Chosen for Inclusion on the MMPI

question 195

Multiple Choice

How were items chosen for inclusion on the MMPI?

• A) by trial and error, involving giving a large number of questions to people with and without various personality disorders.
• B) from points of agreement among Freud, Jung, Adler, and other theorists
• C) arbitrarily by the psychologist who invented the test
• D) by a vote among mental hospital patients

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