As Used in the Text, Playacting

question 27

Multiple Choice

As used in the text, playacting:

• A) means being phony and manipulative and should be avoided.
• B) allows us the opportunity to lose our personal identities and be expressive and creative.
• C) means using role-reversal during negotiation.
• D) means destroying others' faces and lines.

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Definitions:

Norm-Referenced Testing

Testing that compares an individual's performance or scores to a norm group or standard to evaluate relative standing.

T Scores

Standardized scores on psychological and educational tests that have a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10, used to compare individual performance against a normative sample.

Sten Scores

Derived from the name “standard 10,” a standard score that is commonly used on personality inventories and questionnaires. Stens have a mean of 5.5 and a standard deviation of 2.

Standard Error of Measurement (SEM)

The standard error of measurement (SEM) is an estimate of the variation in scores due to measurement error, indicating how repeated measures of a person on the same instrument might differ.