While Taking the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Vince Notices That

question 72

Multiple Choice

While taking the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Vince notices that it contains certain questions that are asked several times in different ways. He asks his daughter, who is a graduate student in psychology, why that is. What is his daughter likely to say?

• A) Truly psychotic individuals expect to find "strange" items on tests.
• B) Those items contain hidden content that is not apparent to normal people.
• C) Some items are used to determine if test takers are trying to "fake" the test by not reading.
• D) The MMPI contains a number of experimental items that are used in developing future versions of the test.

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