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Interference in word associations in schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Dewolfe Alan S.,
Fedirka Paul J.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197804)34:2<302::aid-jclp2270340207>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , arousal , cognition , stimulus (psychology) , audiology , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , neuroscience , medicine
Assessed the effect of response interference on the word associations of male and female process and reactive schizophrenics in two studies that used the difference in associative disturbances between high and low interference (low and high commonality stimulus words) as the measure. The reactives showed a significantly greater increase in disturbances in the high interference condition than did process schizophrenics in both studies. These results occurred in process and reactive groups that did not differ in age, IQ, institutionalization, and current level of physiological arousal and symptom severity in Study I. Findings supported predictions from a qualitiative differences theory of cognitive deficit in schizophrenia.