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Measures of Distance and Motility in Psychotic Children and Severely Subnormal Controls
Author(s) -
O'CONNOR N.,
HERMELIN BEATE
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1964.tb00400.x
Subject(s) - stimulus (psychology) , psychology , childhood schizophrenia , developmental psychology , audiology , cognitive psychology , medicine , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming)
In a group of severely subnormal children diagnosed as psychotic, and controls, the approach response and the amount of movement were measured in the presence of various stimuli. An attempt was made to isolate relevant aspects of ‘a person’ in preparing the stimuli. The distance measure did not differentiate the groups in those conditions which resembled most closely a social stimulus situation. They did differ in their approach score to objects, the psychotics approaching less. Psychotic children also moved more than controls, and the amount of movement did not vary over different stimulus situations.