Commitment: Aspects of a variable in the training and functioning of the clinical psychologist

✍ Scribed by Herbert Silverman

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1963
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 493 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(196310)19:4<497::aid-jclp2270190434>3.0.co;2-0

✦ Synopsis

Three separate experiments each involving the comparison of 20 high scorers on the Manifest Anxiety Scale with 20 low scorers show that when making repeated judgments of the amount of confusion exhibited in schizophrenic test responses the high anxious group always exhibits an initial lower inter-judge reliability, limited to the first trial, and subsequently disappearing. This is interpreted as an irrelevant response (SD) phenomenon rather than drive (D). REFERENCES 1. CHILD, I. L. Personality. Ann. Rev. Psyehol., 1954,6 149-170. 2. HUNT, W. A. An actuarial approach to clinical judgment. In Baue, B. & Berg, I. A., (Eds.) 3. HUNT, W. A. and ARNHOFF, F. N. Some standardized scales for disorganization in schizophrenic 4. HUNT,%. A. and BLUMBERO, S. hfanifest anxiety and clinical judgment. J . clin. Psyehol., 1961, 17, 8-11. 5. H m , W. A. and JONES, N. F. The experimental investigation of clinical judgment. In Bachrach, A., (Ed.) Ezperimentol foundations of clinieal psychology. New York: Baaic Books, 1962.