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Thought disorder and verbal recall in acutely psychotic patients
Author(s) -
Speed Mark,
Toner Brenda B.,
Shugar Gerald,
Gasbarro Ines Di
Publication year - 1991
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(199111)47:6<735::aid-jclp2270470602>3.0.co;2-z
Subject(s) - schizoaffective disorder , psychology , recall , thought disorder , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychosis , psychiatry , clinical psychology , verbal memory , bipolar disorder , developmental psychology , cognition , cognitive psychology
This study examined the relationship between thought disorder and verbal recall in schizophrenic, manic, and schizoaffective inpatients. Based on previous research, it was predicted that subjects who demonstrated only positive thought‐disorder would differ from those with positive and negative thought‐disorder in terms of their ability to encode short descriptive passages. Unlike controls, who were able to encode organized material better than unorganized material, neither thought‐disorder group improved its encoding when the material to be remembered was more organized. Both thought‐disorder groups remembered more when the material was less organized. These findings raise a number of issues with regard to the interrelationship among thought disorders, psychiatric diagnoses, and information‐processing deficits.