MSE and Interviewing Flashcards
This is an important tool in psychiatric and neurological examinations.
Mental Status Examination
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
True
What are the areas covered in MSE?
Appearance
Attitudes
General Behavior
This area generally covers age, sex, race, body build, and others.
Appearance.
This area generally covers motor or behavior, speech, mood or affect, and thought content.
Attitude
This area generally covers thought process, perception, and other considerations.
General Behavior
This kind of interview is where questions that are asked are specific and have sequence or in order.
Structured Interview
In this interview, there are no specific questions or guidelines for the interviewer to follow. Should begin with open-ended questions.
Unstructured Interview
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.
D.
True or false:
Social facilitation is the tendency to not behave like the models around them.
False. Social facilitation is the tendency to behave like the models around them.
Tendency to positively influence one’s opinion or feelings due to positive impressions of a person, country, company, brand, etc.
Halo Effect
True or false:
Being warm, genuine, accepting, understanding, open, committed, and involved will result to negative evaluations bu interviewees.
False, it will result to positive…
True or false:
An interviewer can be judgemental, evaluative, probing, hostile, or reassuring.
False.
The following makes the interview flowing except one.
A. Using “i see”
B. Verbatim Playback
C. Paraphrasing.
D. Summarizing.
E. Confrontation
E. Confrontation
True or false:
The following are the two primary sources of error in the interview.
- Pertains to the validity or meaning of data.
- Pertains to the dependability or reliability.
True
This is the tendency to judge on the basis of one outstanding characteristic.
Standoutishness
This is another response that is used for specific purposes but not recommended as a general strategy.
Confrontationr
This can result in having a bias in interview which may lead to inaccurate conclusions as well.
Cultural Misunderstanding
True or false:
The following is needed for an interviewer to be more effective.:
- Must be alert of the interviewee’s emotions.
- Determining the dominant emotion that fluctuates little.
- Absence of emotion
- Fluctuations of emotion widely.
- Thought process.
True
