A Problem with Self-Report Measures of Depression,such as the Beck

question 103

Multiple Choice

A problem with self-report measures of depression,such as the Beck Depression Inventory,is that

• A) testtakers can fake depression or fake the absence of depression.
• B) they are highly unreliable and based solely on what happened to the testtaker during the previous day or so.
• C) they do not gauge the severity of depression, only its presence or absence.
• D) the theory on which they are based has been shown to be severely flawed.

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