Two common pitfalls in personality assessment are __________ and __________.

A. the P. T. Barnum Effect; illusory correlation
B. the hindsight bias; the foresight effect
C. lexical determinism; lexical confirmation
D. the representativeness heuristic; the availability heuristic

A. the P. T. Barnum Effect; illusory correlation

Psychology

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When Samson was told that he correctly answered 80 percent of the items on a mathematical achievement test, he asked how his performance compared with that of the average test taker. Samson's concern was directly related to the issue of:

a. standardization. b. predictive validity. c. reliability. d. content validity.

Psychology

Inkblots are to personality inventory as __________ is to __________

A) Murray, Pearson B) Terman, Spearman C) Binet, Cattell D) Rorschach, Woodworth

Psychology