All of the following are possible sources of errors that can occur with self-report inventories except __________.

Self-report inventories can be affected by deliberate deception, social desirability bias, and response sets—tendencies to answer in a particular pattern regardless of the questions. Inconsistent scoring is not a typical source of error in the respondent’s self-report; standardized scoring procedures are intended to make scoring consistent. Therefore, the exception is “inconsistent scoring.”

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