After taking the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2, Vince tells his daughter, a graduate student in psychology, that the test contained some "strange" items. He can't imagine anyone giving an answer different than the one he gave
When Vince asks why those items are in the test, 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 responding in unusual ways.
d) The MMPI-2 contains a number of experimental items that are used in developing future versions of the test.
C
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