MSE and Interviewing

Question 2

This is an important tool in psychiatric and neurological examinations.

Answer 2

Mental Status Examination

Question 3

True or false.

The purpose of MSE is to evaluate a person suspected of having a neurological or emotional problems in terms of variables known to be related to these problems

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What are the areas covered in MSE?

Answer 4

Appearance
Attitudes
General Behavior

Question 5

This area generally covers age, sex, race, body build, and others.

Answer 5

Appearance.

Question 6

This area generally covers motor or behavior, speech, mood or affect, and thought content.

Answer 6

Attitude

Question 7

This area generally covers thought process, perception, and other considerations.

Answer 7

General Behavior

Question 8

This kind of interview is where questions that are asked are specific and have sequence or in order.

Answer 8

Structured Interview

Question 9

In this interview, there are no specific questions or guidelines for the interviewer to follow. Should begin with open-ended questions.

Answer 9

Unstructured Interview

Question 10

The following is consists of characteristics of a good interviewer except one.

a. Warm
B. Open
C. Confident atmosphere
D. Eyes are always on the paper.

Answer 10

D.

Question 11

True or false:

Social facilitation is the tendency to not behave like the models around them.

Answer 11

False. Social facilitation is the tendency to behave like the models around them.

Question 12

Tendency to positively influence one’s opinion or feelings due to positive impressions of a person, country, company, brand, etc.

Answer 12

Halo Effect

Question 13

True or false:

Being warm, genuine, accepting, understanding, open, committed, and involved will result to negative evaluations bu interviewees.

Answer 13

False, it will result to positive…

Question 14

True or false:

An interviewer can be judgemental, evaluative, probing, hostile, or reassuring.

Answer 14

False.

Question 15

The following makes the interview flowing except one.

A. Using “i see”
B. Verbatim Playback
C. Paraphrasing.
D. Summarizing.
E. Confrontation

Answer 15

E. Confrontation

Question 16

True or false:

The following are the two primary sources of error in the interview.

1. Pertains to the validity or meaning of data.
2. Pertains to the dependability or reliability.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

This is the tendency to judge on the basis of one outstanding characteristic.

Answer 17

Standoutishness

Question 18

This is another response that is used for specific purposes but not recommended as a general strategy.

Answer 18

Confrontationr

Question 19

This can result in having a bias in interview which may lead to inaccurate conclusions as well.

Answer 19

Cultural Misunderstanding

Question 20

True or false:

The following is needed for an interviewer to be more effective.:

1. Must be alert of the interviewee’s emotions.
2. Determining the dominant emotion that fluctuates little.
3. Absence of emotion
4. Fluctuations of emotion widely.
5. Thought process.

Answer 20

True