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A comparison of the differential effects of stimulus complexity and response competition on schizophrenics
Author(s) -
Hirt Michael,
Genshaft Judy
Publication year - 1980
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.2044-8260.1980.tb00944.x
Subject(s) - stimulus (psychology) , psychology , differential effects , differential (mechanical device) , cognitive psychology , audiology , neuroscience , medicine , physics , thermodynamics
The performance of hospitalized schizophrenics, subdivided on a paranoid/non‐paranoid dimension, was compared to hospitalized controls on tasks intended to separate the effects of response competition and stimulus complexity. The data tended to provide consistent support for stimulus complexity explanations of performance deficits among schizophrenics, rather than explanations based upon response competition.