A Psychologist Interpreting Your Responses to the MMPI-2 Would Be

question 126

Multiple Choice

A psychologist interpreting your responses to the MMPI-2 would be most interested in your

• A)spontaneous reactions to the real-life situations presented within the ambiguous pictures.
• B)strategy for organizing the unstructured material presented.
• C)answers to the individual objective items presented on the test.
• D)pattern of responses to the test questions.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Dissonance

Cognitive dissonance is a psychological concept describing the discomfort experienced when holding contradictory beliefs, values, or attitudes, typically leading to a change in one of them to reduce the dissonance.

Attitudes

are psychological tendencies expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor.

Behavior

The actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment, which can be observed and measured.

Likert Scale

A psychometric scale commonly involved in research that employs questionnaires, used to gauge attitudes, values, or responses involving degrees of agreement or disagreement.