Dr Frankenstein Designs a New Personality Test and Administers It

question 154

Multiple Choice

Dr. Frankenstein designs a new personality test and administers it to 100 subjects. Later she gives the results of the test to each of those subjects and asks them whether they agree that the results are correct. We should be skeptical of what the subjects say, because

• A) she failed to tell them the norms for the test before they answered it.
• B) she failed to explain to them how she interpreted their answers.
• C) people tend to accept almost any description of their personality made by an expert.
• D) people tend to reject almost any description of their personality made by an expert.

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Definitions:

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