The empirical criterion keying method of constructing a personality inventory means items are selected based on:
A) their content.
B) their relationship to some external criterion.
C) whether they correlate with other similar items.
D) whether experts judge them to be acceptable items.
Q. 2Developmentally, Adler specified which of the following responses as the most severe case of misbehavior?
A) revenge seeking
B) power struggle
C) display of inadequacy
D) attention-getting
Q. 3When constructing interviews to assess personality, counselors should be sure to:
A) develop questions that are conceptually related to personality assessment.
B) include both formal and informal interview protocols.
C) use both semi-structured and unstructured interviews to allow for more flexibility in client responses.
D) include only open-ended questions.
Q. 4Which theorist believes that one must learn about goals in order to understand behavior?
A) Wolpe
B) Satir
C) Dreikurs
D) Berne
Q. 5Increasing the amount of time that counselors spend observing clients may be one way to enhance the __________________, and therefore, the validity, of observations.
A) subjectivity
B) objectivity
C) representativeness
D) applicability
Q. 6According to Dreikurs, misbehavior has all of the following goals except
A) status.
B) understanding.
C) power.
D) control.
Q. 7The most widely employed method of personality assessment is:
A) observation.
B) the MMPI-2
C) structured interviews.
D) rating scales.
Q. 8When the concepts of natural and logical consequences are applied, people are
A) allowed to experience the actual results of their behavior
B) given a reward on a fixed interval schedule
C) allowed to make decisions on the type of punishment to be used
D) reinforced on a variable ratio schedule
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