A Critic of Personality Inventories Says, "These Tests Have No

question 55

Multiple Choice

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.

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