Which of the following is true regarding the original MMPI?

Which of the following is true regarding the original MMPI?
 
  a. Its development included a nationwide comparison of several thousand nonclinical individuals and several thousand psychiatric patients.
  b. Its primary purpose was to diagnose personality disorders.
  c. It consisted of 550 true/false items.
  d. all of the above

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Question 2

Hathaway and McKinley published the original MMPI in
 
  a. 1930.
  b. 1943.
  c. 1956.
  d. 1969.

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Question 3

The __________ approach to test construction involves many aspects of other approaches and is the most labor-intensive.
 
  a. construct validation
  b. content validation
  c. empirical criterion keying
  d. factor analytic

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Question 4

A weakness of the factor analytic strategy of test construction is
 
  a. its reliance on expert opinion over empirical data.
  b. that items that measure the same thing may actually be measuring the wrong thing.
  c. both of the above
  d. neither of the above

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Question 5

A group of clinical psychologists is creating a new personality test by measuring correlations among items from pre-existing personality tests. They have theory-based hypotheses regarding the outcome of their procedure. They are apparently using the __________ approach to test construction.
 
  a. confirmatory factor analytic
  b. content validation
  c. empirical criterion keying
  d. exploratory factor analytic