Perceptual judgment and associative learning ability of schizophrenics and nonpsychotics

"A group of 30 well-preserved, but actively psychotic, schizophrenic subjects were compared with an equal number of nonpsychotic subjects for performance on associative learning and perceptual judgment tasks. The results tended to confirm other research indicating impairment in schizophrenic ju...

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Published in:Journal of Consulting Psychology 1956-06, Vol.20 (3), p.211-214
Main Author: Chambers, Jay L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Associative Processes
Conditioning, Classical
Human
Humans
Judgment
Learning Ability
Old Medline
Psychosis
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia - psychology
Schizophrenic Psychology
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Summary:"A group of 30 well-preserved, but actively psychotic, schizophrenic subjects were compared with an equal number of nonpsychotic subjects for performance on associative learning and perceptual judgment tasks. The results tended to confirm other research indicating impairment in schizophrenic judgment without loss of accuracy in learning. However, the schizophrenics were significantly slower on both learning and judgment tasks . . . . A combined judgment and learning task failed to disclose differences between the groups of any greater significance than was obtained by tasks which emphasized judgment alone."
ISSN:0095-8891
0022-006X
1946-1887
1939-2117
DOI:10.1037/h0045195