The original purpose of the MMPI was to
a. identify the major personality types.
b. screen applicants for industrial jobs.
c. identify students who needed special remediation in their studies.
d. identify personality traits related to mental health.
e. provide an objective way to relate personality to intelligence.
d. identify personality traits related to mental health.
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Research on dichotic listening shows that
a. most people have great difficulty attending to one task while ignoring another task. b. when people pay attention to one task, they typically notice little about other tasks. c. selective attention is an unfortunate problem that limits our performance enormously. d. we can usually shadow one series of items and process another series very accurately.
In balanced-placebo experiments with drinkers who meet the criteria of alcohol dependence, if they are given a beverage that they are led to believe has no alcohol, but that actually does have a small amount of alcohol in it, they
A. start to drink more and more of the beverage until they "lose control." B. report feeling intoxicated, even at BACs too low to detect. C. do not report intoxication and do not increase their drinking. D. can detect any amount of alcohol, when normal drinkers cannot.