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What is one of the advantages of structured interviews in assessing clients?
 
  a. Scoring is based on empirical research.
  b. Structured interviews do not require training.
  c. The interviewer can probe further when necessary.
  d. The structured interview has a strict time limit that provides more time for other diagnostic tests.

Question 2

Paul Meehl has suggested that when clinicians mistakenly pay attention to vague, superficial, or stereotyped statements by clients, and fail to pay to attention to subtler but more important evidence, they are victims of the cognitive error he has labeled
 
  a. cognitive dissonance effect.
  b. unreliability bias.
  c. Barnum effect.
  d. diagnostic fallibility crisis.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: c.

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Answer: c.





 

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