RT Journal Article
T1 The influence of causal connections between symptoms on the diagnosis of mental disorders: Evidence from online and offline measures
A1 Flores, Amanda
A1 Cobos-Cano, Pedro Luis
A1 López-Gutiérrez, Francisco José
A1 Godoy-Ávila, Antonio
A1 González-Martín, Estrella
K1 Desórdenes mentales
K1 Enfermedades mentales - Diagnóstico
AB An experiment conducted with students and experienced clinicians demonstratedvery fast and on-line causal reasoning in the diagnosis of DSM-IV mental disorders.The experiment also demonstrated that clinicians’ causal reasoning is triggered byinformation that is directly related to the causal structure that explains the symptoms,such as their temporal sequence. The use of causal theories was measured throughexplicit, verbal diagnostic judgments and through the on-line registration ofparticipants’ reading times of clinical reports. To detect both on-line and off-line causalreasoning, the consistency of clinical reports was manipulated. This manipulation wasmade by varying the temporal order in which different symptoms developed inhypothetical clients, and by providing explicit information about causal connectionsbetween symptoms. The temporal order of symptoms affected the clinicians’ but not thestudents’ reading times. However, off-line diagnostic judgments in both groups wereinfluenced by the consistency manipulation. Overall, our results suggest that cliniciansengage in fast and on-line causal reasoning processes when dealing with diagnosticinformation concerning mental disorders, and that both clinicians and students engage incausal reasoning in diagnostic judgment tasks.
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/35918
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/35918
LA eng
NO Flores, A., Cobos, P.L., López, F.J., Godoy, A. & González-Martín, E. (2014). The influence of causal connections between symptoms on the diagnosis of mental disorders: Evidence from online and offline measures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 20, 175-190
NO This is the author’s version of the work, which has been accepted for publication in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied published by the American Psychological Association. It is not the final version of record.The final version is in https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-30836-001https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/3471
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