Psycholinguistic correlates of language predictability in psychiatric interviews.
Applied the cloze technique to patient speech samples that were obtained from tape-recorded initial intake interviews in a psychiatric outpatient clinic. The findings indicated that cloze samples taken from the end of the interview were less predictable than those obtained from the beginning. Correlation with cloze change scores in discussed.
D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D007802:Language; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D013997:Time Factors; D013998:Time Perception; D014705:Verbal Behavior