This study involved the use of analogical techniques in determining judgmental accuracy and in investigating a cue basis for judgment. Clinical judgment studies seldom have utilized methodologies adequately quantified and objectified by appropriate operational techniques. Methodologies analogous to the carefully controlled and standardized procedures used in laboratory experiment and research techniques paralleling the precision of psychophysical methodologies with respect to stimulus identification, description, and control ('-6 , have direct application to clinical judgment research. In this study, task administration and data reporting and recording methods(6) were standardized, task complexity ( a ) and task length (') were controlled, and criterion concepts were clegrly defined"). Selected personality variables were controlled for by classifying both judges and subjects(') on Byrne's(2) Repression-Sensitization (R-S) Scale.
The specific purposes of the study were to (1) determine the accuracy of untrained male represser, neutral, and sensitizer judges in locating represser and sensitizer female targets on a scale representing the repression-sensitization personality dimension, and ( 2 ) investigate the types of cues judges reportedly used in locating these same targets.