Psychological Assessment Chapter 8 Test

One example of a closed-ended question is,

"Are you feeling good today?"

Evaluative statements may communicate,

"I don't approve of this aspect of you."

An interviewer may be able to occasionally use probing statements by asking

"tell me" or "how?" statements.

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

false reassurance.

According to Carkhuff and Berenson's categorization of responses,

a level one response bears little relationship to the interviewee's response.

General standoutishness is

a term to describe the tendency to judge on the basis of one outstanding characteristic.

Making understanding responses is sometimes referred to as

active listening.

Reassuring statements

attempt to comfort and support the interviewee.

Genuineness, acceptance, and understanding are

attitudes related to good interviewing skills.

A response such as, "Don't worry, everything will be alright" should be

avoided during an interview.

The reciprocal nature of interviewing means that

both participants in an interview are interdependent upon and influence each other.

Stress interviews may be

called upon if assessing an individual for a position that would require working in volatile situations.

Truax and Carkhuff's's (1967) 5 - point scoring system for interview understanding comes from work with

client centered therapy.

Social facilitation is a

concept that the interviewee's perception of an interview may have a great deal to do with the behavior off the interviewer and the emotional climate of the setting.

Research indicates that using _________ ___________ leads people to talk about or explore themselves at deeper levels.

empathic responses

Probing statements

frequently demand more information than that the reviewee would be willing to provide voluntarily.

Clarification and summarizing statements

go just a little farther than the interviewee's response.

Structured clinical interviews

have been criticized because they rely completely on self-report data.

Research has shown that ____ ________ on the part of one participant interview is associated with increased activity of the other party.

high activity

A transitional phrase

implies that the interviewee should continue talking about the same topic.

General standoutishness theory indicates that less attractive applicants are more favorably treated in telephone interviews rather than

in person interviews.

Great caution should be used when providing a confrontational response to an interviewee because it may

induce anxiety.

Questions about the reliability of interviews have centered around

inter-interviewer agreement.

If an interrogator in a criminal interview is highly active, it may lead to ____________ ______________ due to the suspect's increased level of activity.

misleading information

Good interview behavior is

more a matter of attitude than skill.

Research has shown that the most important factor in an individual's evaluation of the quality of the interview was their

perception of the interviewer's feelings.

Clarification statements

serve to clarify the interviewee's response, remain very close to the meaning of the interviewee's response, and may add to the interviewee's response.

"Why?" Statements

should be avoided interviews because it demands the interview explain the behavior and may be perceived as judgmental.

A mental status examination is a

special type of interview used primarily to diagnose mental health problems.

Closed-ended questions

tend to bring the interview to a halt and thereby violate the principle of keeping the interaction flowing.

Social facilitation refers to the

tendency for an individual to act like the models to whom she/he is exposed.

The comment, "Yes, I see" is a good example of a

transitional statement.