Modification of chronic schizophrenics' abstractions through enriched stimuli and social censure
✍ Scribed by Helen Sonier Sullivan; Frank X. Acosta; Lowell H. Storms
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 545 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
Examined the abstracting abbilities of good and poor premorbid chronic schize phrenics on sin le and multi le proverbs, as well as the effects of censure on each group. ! ! wo groups 0 ! 1 6 8 s each, comparable in terms of education, I& and age, were presented with single and multiple sets of proverbs in two sessions and were asked to give the meanings of the roverbs. Half of each r p received immediate negative verbal feedback wlen their performance ell below criteria. Both roups showed significant improvement in the multiple proverb condition. %ere was also a significant Group X Censure interaction. It is suggested that good premorbids may suffer more from interference in processing stimuli, while poor premorbids suffer more from interference in response selection or from a motivational deficit.