Using the computer opens ...

Use the computer and opens up entirely new opportunities: adaptive testing, analysis of data from the typology of objects is not testing for a predetermined on the basis of theoretical concepts, classes, and based on empirical research, revealed in a study patterns, use of time parameters, the use of multimedia stimuli means of virtual reality, gaming motivation, creation of databases and systems management (DBMS), the establishment of expert and learning systems, self-control behavioral responses. During the development and introduction of computer techniques have problems as a purely "technical" as well as psychological. The appearance between the studied and a new specialist unit - a computer program (a symbol of the ordinary consciousness in the form of "computer") - gives rise to a new relationship: the examinee - a computer specialist - computer, which alters the relationship between the studied and a psychologist. And the dialogical interaction with the computer leads to the attribution of subjectivity to it, its personification, that attaches to its relations with the subject - the subjective nature. These relationships are culturally conditioned differences: for example, subjects in the U.S. tend to impeach computers (probably because of the widespread use of computers in various systems of control, perceived as a "control person") in CIS there is a pronounced opposite effect. Also, different attitude towards computer testing in different social groups. This phenomenon, in particular, leads to the fact that when using "manual" and PC versions of the same techniques the subjects may use different strategies. For example, when investigating the level of claims in the case of testing a human test subject is behaving more "cautious", and the interaction with the computer - the more "risky" and "relaxed." The consequences of these phenomena can be both positive and negative. In some cases they may affect the validity of the techniques and to demand their restandartizatsii. Attitudes toward computer psychologists diagnosticians also has its own characteristics, varying in the range of "sverhdoveriya" to "psychological barrier". Thus, despite the availability in the U.S., only half of clinical psychologists and counselors have used a computer (in 1989).. Perhaps this is due to the above culture-specific features. In the CIS, computer diagnostics are widely developed. It covers how to develop individual programs and "fundamental" issues. Most often, programs are automated versions of already existing diagnostics instruments. Catches a lot of frankly amateur development (especially "lucky" in this regard Lusher test), but there are programs written by the programmer, with the participation of professional psychologists with an unacceptably low level. The reason for this is obviously a very difficult problem of "translation" of poorly structured, loose, intuitive knowledge of psychology on a strictly logical, algorithmic programming language: "... only as an exception, and not as a rule, a person can explain what he knows" (Minsk).