PSYC37H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Brain Damage, Clinical Psychology, Social Facilitation
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Interviewing is the chief method of collecting data in clinical psychiatry. Interviews involve mutual interaction whereby the participants are interdependent, influencing each other. E. g. , when criminal suspects were interrogated if one of the participants increased his or her activity level, then the activity of the other participant also increased. Heller (1971) found that when professional actors responded with anger to highly trained, experienced interviewers, the interviewers became angry themselves and showed anger toward the actors. Social facilitation: the tendency to act like the models around us. Principles of effective interviewing: the proper attitudes. Interpersonal influence: the degree to which one person can influence another. Interpersonal interaction: the degree to which people share a feeling of understanding, mutual respect, similarity, and the like): responses to avoid. Interviewers should avoid certain responses, including judgmental or evaluative statements, probing statements, hostility, and false reassurance. Judgmental or evaluative statements are likely to inhibit the interviewee, putting them on guard.
