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Design of an intelligent computer psychodiagnostician
Author(s) -
Brooks Ruven,
Kleinmuntz Benjamin
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830190103
Subject(s) - psychopathology , medical diagnosis , human–computer interaction , computer science , psychiatric diagnosis , psychology , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , medicine , pathology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming)
A computer psychodiagnostician with limited learning capability is described. It is an interactive system which poses questions to persons who have observed psychiatric patients. It prints out the relative probabilities that the described patient has one of twenty diagnoses as well as the degree of overall psychopathology. Several practical and theoretical uses of the system are discussed.