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What is Focused Interview ?

Focused interview is related to those people or interviewee, who themselves have seen any accident, movie or have heard any special commentary. In such interview stress will be given only to those situations whose analysis has been done before the interview. In such type of interviews, there is an interview guide that contains two things in it. First contains the description of all those areas to be covered during interview. Second contains that hypothesis on the basis of which the data has to be collected. This type of interview is totally dependent on the personal experiences, attitude and emotional reactions of the interviewee about the situation taken for study. Along with this the interviewee has the full liberty to express his views about the situation of the interview.

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.

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