RT Journal Article
T1 Detecting Fast, Online Reasoning Processes in Clinical Decision Making
A1 Flores, Amanda
A1 Cobos-Cano, Pedro Luis
A1 López-Gutiérrez, Francisco José
A1 Godoy-Ávila, Antonio
K1 Informes
AB In an experiment that used the inconsistency paradigm, experienced clinical psychologistsand psychology students performed a reading task using clinical reports and a diagnosticjudgment task. The clinical reports provided information about the symptoms of hypotheticalclients who had been previously diagnosed with a specific mental disorder. Reading times ofinconsistent target sentences were slower than that of control sentences, demonstrating aninconsistency effect. The results also showed that experienced clinicians gave differentweights to different symptoms according to their relevance when fluently reading the clinicalreports provided, despite the fact that all the symptoms were of equal diagnostic valueaccording to the DSM-IV. The diagnostic judgment task yielded a similar pattern of results.In contrast to previous findings, the results of the reading task may be taken as a directevidence of the intervention of reasoning processes that occur very early, rapidly, and online.We suggest that these processes are based on the representation of mental disorders and thatthese representations are particularly suited to fast retrieval from memory and to makinginferences. They may also be related to the clinician's causal reasoning. The implications ofthese results for clinician training are also discussed.
PB American Psychological Association
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/35916
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/35916
LA spa
NO Flores, A., Cobos, P.L., López, F.J., & Godoy, A. (2014). Detecting fast, online reasoning processes in clinical decision making. Psychological Assessment, 26, 660-665.
NO This is the author’s version of the work, which has been accepted for publication in Psychological Assessment published by the American Psychological Association. It is not the final version of record. The final version is in https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fa0035151
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