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What is Diagnostic Interview ?

In such of type of interview the interviewer tries to find the possible cause of any specific diseases from the interviewee. This type of interview is use in clinical psychology, where psychologist and patient sits in front of each other and psychologist tries to find the hidden causes behind disease while interviewing the patient. Sociologist also uses this method to diagnose the social problems.

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 :-

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.
The case study method is used in clinical psychology to identify the symptoms of any disease and the cause responsible for it.
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.
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

Answer :- B

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

Answer :- D

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

Answer :- A

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

Answer :- C

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

Answer :- A