JUDGMENT RESEARCH AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT - A NARRATIVE REVIEW AND METAANALYSES

The authors review judgment research in the area of neuropsychological assessment. Topics include the reliability and validity of judgments, the appropriateness of confidence ratings, the value of training and experience, the cognitive processes of neuropsychologists, and the use of decision aids, including automated assessment programs and statist ical prediction rules. Most of the research is on reliability and vali dity. The results indicate that neuropsychologists frequently make rel iable and moderately valid judgments. However, for several tasks, expe rimenters have not studied the reliability and validity of judgments.