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Psicologia

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SANTOS, Ana Sofia dos; REIS, Maria de Fátima  and  GARCIA-MARQUES, Leonel. Looking at Chase and Simon Study: Experienced and Non-Experienced Dinamic Psychotherapists1 Memory of Clinical Information. Psicologia [online]. 1998, vol.12, n.2, pp.237-271. ISSN 0874-2049.  https://doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v12i2.579.

Psychodynamic therapists, with diíferent levels of clinical expertise, were presented with either two typical clinical cases or two atypical clinical cases. All subjects were submitted to two tasks: (1) diagnostic evaluation; (2) recognition test of the information presented earlier in the two clinical cases, after seeing each for 6 minutes. The most interesting results were: experts had recognition memory superior to that of the non-experts, meaning that they more accurately recognized information seen before, in the typical clinical cases condition. When information included in clinical cases was diagnostically inconsistent, creating atypical cases, however, the non-experts were superior. These results were even more emphasized when a more benevolent response correction criterion was adopted, which is a more sensitive memory measure. This result could not be attributed to a generally superior memory ability of any of the groups, for when a irrelevant information memory measure was in consideration, the experts could then do no better in the recognition test than non-experts. Adicionally, the results in the recognition memory test were superior for information consistent with a psychotic diagnosis. This result was related to the enormous number of psychotic diagnosis given by the therapists to the atypical cases persented; and can be explained by the theoretical assumptions of schema theory.

Keywords : memória; informação clínica; psicoterapia.

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