The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Is Best Used to

question 4

Multiple Choice

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is best used to

• A) assess normal personality characteristics which are necessary to perform any job.
• B) predict which employees would make the best managers.
• C) screen out applicants who possess some psychopathology.
• D) select applicants to be given polygraph tests.

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Definitions:

Lower-order Need

Basic physiological and safety needs that individuals seek to fulfill before addressing more complex desires or psychological aspects.

Higher-order Need

Advanced psychological needs that go beyond basic physical requirements, such as social belonging, esteem, and self-actualization, according to Maslow's hierarchy.

Maslow's Needs

A hierarchy of human needs proposed by Abraham Maslow that describes motivational factors from basic physiological needs to self-actualization.

Direction

Guidance or supervision provided to perform tasks or to make decisions and progress in activities or objectives.