Professor Plum Devises a New Personality Test and Administers It

question 129

Multiple Choice

Professor Plum devises a new personality test and administers it to a large and representative group of people, finding a wide distribution of scores on the test. Two months later he administers a second form of the same test to the same people and finds that most people receive almost the same score they had the first time. He should conclude that the test has

• A) high reliability and high validity.
• B) high reliability and unknown validity.
• C) unknown reliability and high validity.
• D) unknown reliability and unknown validity.

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Definitions:

Id

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest.

Superego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of a person's mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards learned from parents and environment.

Moral Component

Aspects of behavior, thought, and emotion concerning ethics, values, and principles of right and wrong.

Psychodynamic Theories

A group of theories in psychology that emphasize the influence of the unconscious mind on behavior and are based on the ideas of Sigmund Freud.