[Coding/Special Scores] Special Scores

[Coding/Special Scores] Special Scores

Aliases

• Special Scores
• special scores
• special coding
• special score codes

Definition

Special Scores are supplementary codes that capture qualities of a response that are not described fully by location, DQ, determinant, FQ, or content alone.
In the currently authored English set, the open routes are COP, AG, MOR, AB, PSV, PER, CP, DV1, DV2, DR1, DR2, INCOM1, INCOM2, FABCOM1, FABCOM2, CONTAM, and ALOG.

Conditions

• Special Scores are added on top of the main coding; they do not replace location, determinants, or content.
• Assign them only when the special quality is clearly present in the response.
• In this stage, the open English routes are scoring-input/special-score/COP, scoring-input/special-score/AG, scoring-input/special-score/MOR, scoring-input/special-score/AB, scoring-input/special-score/PSV, scoring-input/special-score/PER, scoring-input/special-score/CP, scoring-input/special-score/DV1, scoring-input/special-score/DV2, scoring-input/special-score/DR1, scoring-input/special-score/DR2, scoring-input/special-score/INCOM1, scoring-input/special-score/INCOM2, scoring-input/special-score/FABCOM1, scoring-input/special-score/FABCOM2, scoring-input/special-score/CONTAM, and scoring-input/special-score/ALOG.
• COP and AG depend on movement content, usually scoring-input/determinants/M, scoring-input/determinants/FM, or scoring-input/determinants/m.
• MOR is added when damage, deterioration, death, or a distinctly morbid quality is attributed to the object.
• AB is used for abstract formulation and often needs review together with scoring-input/contents/Hx, scoring-input/contents/Art, and scoring-input/contents/Ay.
• PSV is used for perseveration and later connects with the interpretation route result-interpretation/lower-section/processing/PSV.
• PER is used for personalized justification and later connects with result-interpretation/lower-section/interpersonal/PER and result-interpretation/lower-section/mediation/Xu_percent.
• CP is used for projected chromatic color in an achromatic area and should be reviewed alongside scoring-input/determinants/FC, scoring-input/determinants/FY, scoring-input/determinants/YF, scoring-input/determinants/Y, and the later interpretation route result-interpretation/lower-section/affect/CP.
• DV1 and DV2 are used for deviant verbalization and later connect with result-interpretation/lower-section/ideation/Sum6, result-interpretation/lower-section/ideation/Lv2, and result-interpretation/lower-section/ideation/WSum6.
• DR1 and DR2 are used for deviant response organization and should be separated from DV1 / DV2, which focus more on verbal formulation itself.
• INCOM1 and INCOM2 are used for incongruous combinations and should be separated from both FABCOM and CONTAM.
• FABCOM1 and FABCOM2 are used for fabulized relations among response elements and should be separated from INCOM and CONTAM.
• CONTAM is used for contaminated fusion of incompatible percepts within one response.
• ALOG is used for inappropriate or insufficient logic used to justify a response.
• These codes later connect to interpretation routes such as result-interpretation/lower-section/interpersonal/COP, result-interpretation/lower-section/interpersonal/AG, result-interpretation/lower-section/ideation/MOR, result-interpretation/lower-section/ideation/_2AB_Art_Ay, result-interpretation/lower-section/interpersonal/PER, result-interpretation/lower-section/affect/CP, result-interpretation/lower-section/ideation/Sum6, result-interpretation/lower-section/ideation/Lv2, and result-interpretation/lower-section/ideation/WSum6.

Cautions

• A Special Score should not be used as a vague overall impression; it requires an observable feature in the response.
• COP and AG are not assigned just because two figures are present; there must be clearly cooperative or aggressive action.
• MOR does not mean any sad or unpleasant content; it requires death, damage, deterioration, ruin, or another directly morbid quality.
• AB should not become a catch-all for any unusual or symbolic answer.
• PSV does not mean simple consistency or thematic preference; it requires perseverative repetition.
• PER is not assigned just because the subject says "I" or makes a loose autobiographical comment.
• CP should not be mixed with normal chromatic determinants when color has been projected onto an achromatic area.
• DV1 and DV2 differ by severity of verbal deviation and should not automatically be confused with DR1 or DR2.
• DR1 and DR2 are not assigned just because a response is long; they require a deviation in the organization of the full response.
• INCOM1 and INCOM2 are not synonyms for fantasy or creativity; they require a genuinely incongruous combination.
• FABCOM1 and FABCOM2 are not catch-all labels for imagination; they require an implausible relation among elements.
• CONTAM requires real perceptual contamination, not just a striking metaphor.
• ALOG requires faulty inference, not merely unusual wording.
• Human content may later connect with scoring-input/gphr/GHR or scoring-input/gphr/PHR, but Special Scores do not decide those codes by themselves.

Cross References

• [Coding/Special Scores] COP
• [Coding/Special Scores] AG
• [Coding/Special Scores] MOR
• [Coding/Special Scores] AB
• [Coding/Special Scores] PSV
• [Coding/Special Scores] PER
• [Coding/Special Scores] CP
• [Coding/Special Scores] DV1
• [Coding/Special Scores] DV2
• [Coding/Special Scores] DR1
• [Coding/Special Scores] DR2
• [Coding/Special Scores] INCOM1
• [Coding/Special Scores] INCOM2
• [Coding/Special Scores] FABCOM1
• [Coding/Special Scores] FABCOM2
• [Coding/Special Scores] CONTAM
• [Coding/Special Scores] ALOG
• [Coding/Determinant] M
• [Coding/Determinant] FM
• [Coding/Determinant] m
• [Coding/Determinant] FC
• [Coding/Determinant] FY
• [Coding/Determinant] YF
• [Coding/Determinant] Y
• [Coding/Contents] Hx
• [Coding/Contents] Art
• [Coding/Contents] Ay
• [Coding/GHR-PHR] GHR
• [Coding/GHR-PHR] PHR
• [Interpretation/Interpersonal] COP
• [Interpretation/Interpersonal] AG
• [Interpretation/Interpersonal] Human Content
• [Interpretation/Interpersonal] PER
• [Interpretation/Mediation] Xu%
• [Interpretation/Processing] PSV
• [Interpretation/Ideation] 2AB + Art + Ay
• [Interpretation/Ideation] Sum6
• [Interpretation/Ideation] Lv2
• [Interpretation/Ideation] WSum6
• [Interpretation/Ideation] MOR
• [Interpretation/Affect] CP
• [Interpretation/Self Perception] MOR

Evidence Note

• Detailed source comparisons remain in the internal provenance note.