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The Mmpi Was Devised "Empirically." in Other Words,researchers

Question 246
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The MMPI was devised "empirically." In other words,researchers A)chose items answered differently by people with different personality types. B)started with theories of personality and found items that fit the theories. C)asked a wide variety of psychologists to vote for the items they preferred. D)asked a wide variety of untrained people to vote for the items they preferred.

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Q 247
To develop the MMPI,researchers selected questions that A)pertained to aspects of personality that were important in the best established theories of personality. B)people with certain disorders answered one way,and normal people answered another way. C)were simple enough to be understood even by children or brain damaged adults. D)were sufficiently open-ended to allow each person to answer a different way.
Q 248
How were items chosen for inclusion on the MMPI? A)by trial and error,involving giving a large number of questions to people with and without various personality disorders. B)from points of agreement among Freud,Jung,Adler,and other theorists C)arbitrarily by the psychologist who invented the test D)by a vote among mental hospital patients
Q 249
When psychologists designed the MMPI,they evaluated possible questions for the depression scale by asking the following question: A)Is the predictive validity of this item higher than its reliability? B)Do most depressed people answer this question differently from most nondepressed people? C)Do most psychologists agree that this item has something to do with depression? D)Does this item correspond to a major point in the current theories about the causes of depression?
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