Clinical Assessment Interviews Differ from Social Conversations in That

question 18

Multiple Choice

Clinical assessment interviews differ from social conversations in that

• A) clinical assessment interviews are more free-flowing than are social conversations.
• B) clinical assessment interviews do not involve reciprocally sharing of information between client and psychologist.
• C) in social conversations, friends are more likely to interrupt each other, whereas in a clinical assessment interview, the psychologist shows greater patience.
• D) none of the above

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values derived from sample statistics that is likely to contain the true value of an unknown population parameter.

Null Hypothesis

In statistics, a hypothesis that proposes no significant difference or effect; the hypothesis that a researcher tries to disprove.

Alpha Level

The threshold of significance in hypothesis testing, representing the probability of making a Type I error.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, used to estimate the true parameter of a population with a specified level of confidence.