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Imagery in the associative learning of schizophrenics
Author(s) -
Yu Howard K.,
Johnson James H.
Publication year - 1979
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(197904)35:2<265::aid-jclp2270350209>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - psychology , recall , stimulus (psychology) , cognitive psychology , associative property , cognition , associative learning , verbal learning , mental image , developmental psychology , neuroscience , mathematics , pure mathematics
The present experiment is similar to Bower's (1970) study on imagery as a relational organizer in paired‐associate (PA) learning with normals. Three groups of 20 schizophrenic patients learned three different lists of 30 word‐word paired‐associates, which used either interactive imagery, separation imagery, or rote repetition encoding. S s were tested on stimulus recognition and paired‐associate recall, given recognition. Differences in stimulus recognition and paired‐associate recall were not significant across the three encoding methods. Results suggest that schizophrenics are unable to benefit from imaginal cues to facilitate learning in a manner similar to normals. These results are interpreted as providing additional support for the notion that the schizophrenics' cognitive deficit is associated with the relational organizing process of learning.