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The Effect of Speed on Comprehension in Schizophrenia
Author(s) -
MARCHBANKS GABRIELLE,
WILLIAMS MOYRA
Publication year - 1971
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.2044-8260.1971.tb00712.x
Subject(s) - task (project management) , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , comprehension , psychology , audiology , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , computer science , medicine , psychiatry , engineering , systems engineering , programming language
A task involving the carrying out of spoken commands of varied length and frequency was devised and administered to schizophrenic subjects and non‐psychotic patients under four conditions of speed. Schizophrenic subjects made more errors as the speed of the commands was increased. Patient controls made more errors when natural pauses were eliminated than under the fastest speed condition. Schizophrenic subjects repeated words from the commands as the speed of delivery increased; patient controls repeated less as the speed increased.