Exam 8: Interviewing Techniques

For interview data, the critical questions about reliability have centered around

Making understanding responses is sometimes referred to as

David had graduated and secured two job interviews. He was quite nervous and in one interview, the interview team bickered among themselves and was rude to each other. In the other, the interview team was calm, relaxed, and welcoming. When he later thought about the interviews, David described himself as feeling very tense and even frightened in the first interview, and calm and confident in the second one. This is consistent with the idea of

"Are you feeling good today?" is an example of a(n)

The power of understanding responses is documented in the area of

Deliberately inducing discomfort or anxiety in an interviewee

A closed-ended question

Which of the following attempts to comfort or support the interviewee?

"Don't worry, everything will be alright" is an example of

Which two responses go beyond the interviewee's response?

The school counselor knew he was wrong when he told the failing student in his office that everything would be alright, but the student was so upset that the counselor could not help himself. This is an example of

A(n)____ interview was developed in order to help overcome the low reliability in psychiatric diagnosis.

Which of the following is NOT an attitude related to good interviewing skills?

A transitional phrase

What is a special type of interview used primarily to diagnose psychosis, brain damage, and other major mental health problems?

To keep the interaction flowing in unstructured interviews, the interviewer must

By replacing "why?" statements with "tell me" or "how?" statements, an interviewer can occasionally make wise use of ____ statements.

Because they were interviewing for a public relations position that would involve dealing with very volatile situations on very short notice, the MEM Oil Co. deliberately induced a degree of anxiety in the interview process. They were using a technique known as the ____ interview.

Which of the following is the most likely to be a good interview question?

Criminal interrogations can result in misleading information if an interrogator is highly active because