An Advantage of Using Mail Interviews to Collect Research Data

question 21

True/False

An advantage of using mail interviews to collect research data is the ability to control the interviewing environment.

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Definitions:

Alters

Refers to each of the unique personalities in an individual who has dissociative identity disorder (DID). Alters may be very different from each other, with opposite personality traits (e.g., one very extraverted and another very introverted), and differences in the age, sex, race, and family history they claim to have.

Unique Personalities

Refers to the distinctive set of traits, behaviors, and thought patterns that make up an individual's character, distinguishing them from others.

False Memory Syndrome

Said to be exhibited by persons who claim to remember events that did not really take place, due to the influence of therapists who use leading questions, repeated suggestion, visualization, and hypnosis with the aim of recovering repressed memories.

Iatrogenic Memory Syndrome

A condition where a therapy or treatment inadvertently creates false memories or exacerbates psychological disorders, rather than healing them.