What is Clinical Interview ?

It is also called as Depth Interview and in this type of interview the interviewer shows more interest in study of feelings, motives and inspirations of the person to be interviewed. In this type of interview, the interviewer has prior knowledge about the types of questions he has to ask from the interviewee at the time of interview, which are about the specific feelings, conflicts, incidents etc.

What is Interview

• Meaning and characteristics of interview Generally the face to face conversation between two or more persons to fulfill any specific purpose is called as interview.
• According to Denzen (1970), “An interview is any face-to- face conversational exchange where one person elicits information from another.” According to Kerlinger (1985), “The interview is face — to —face interpersonal role situation in which one person, the interviewer, asks a person being interviewed, the respondent, questions designed to obtain answers pertinent to research problem.”

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Important Points :- 

1. In the present chapter methods of psychology and measure of central tendency are discussed. Invigilation method is also called as observation method. In this method the observer studies the behavior of the organism or person.
2. The case study method is used in clinical psychology to identify the symptoms of any disease and the cause responsible for it.
3. Generally the conversation between two or more persons for any specific cause is called as an interview.
   Survey method, experimental method introspection method are the basic psychological methods.
4. The measure of central tendency are- Mean, Mode, Median. In the present chapter frequency distribution, linear presentation, graphical presentation, frequency polygon and histogram are discussed.

1. The meaning of frequency is:
a) Scores
b) No. of repetitions of scores
c) Multiple of scores
d) None of these

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2. Which of the method is not suitable for absolute frequency distribution?
a) Exclusive method
b) Inclusive method
c) Exact method
d) None of these

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Answer :- D

3.) Which is the formula for range?
a) (H-L)+1
b) (H+L)-1
c) (H-L)
d) NONE OF THESE

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Answer :- A

4. The symbol of size of class interval is:
a) Y
b) X
c) i
d) p

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Answer :- C

5. Which of the following is a graphical method?
a) Frequency polygon
b) Histogram
c) Bar diagram
d) All the above

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Answer :- A