PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Extraversion And Introversion, Managed Care, Positive Psychology
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Do not have time limits but are encouraged to finish quickly: (3) tests in this category yield many scores. A typical entry reports 15 to 20 scores. And the different scores on a specific domain test, because they are closely related, may be summed into a total score: (4) usually have very targeted audiences and uses, (5) have very limited norm groups. The specific domain test is short and simple, yet it offers a narrower band of information. Strategies for dealing with response sets and faking: most of these strategies fall into four main categories, (1) includes references to extreme empirical frequencies for normal groups. An inventory may contain a dozen or more such items, yielding a score for suspected faking: (2) determines response consistency to similar items. We can tell whether the person is a yea-sayer, nay-sayer or just answering at random: (3) deals with the yea-saying and nay-saying response tendencies by balancing the directionality of items.
