BEHAVIORAL VARIABILITY OF PROCESS AND REACTIVE SCHIZOPHRENICS IN A BINARY GUESSING TASK.

Autor: Zlotowski, Martin, Bakan, Paul
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Zdroj: Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology; Feb1963, Vol. 66 Issue 2, p185-187, 3p, 1 Chart
Abstrakt: Process and reactive schizophrenics differ in run producing behavior when attempting to generate a random binary series of heads and tails. Reactive schizophrenics manifest more response variability than process schizophrenics. Evidence for this is a lower correlation for reactives between number of runs in the 1st and 2nd ~ of a series of 300 binary responses. It is of interest to note that reactives are more variable than a normal undergraduate sample whereas process schizophrenics are not (Bakan, 1960). The process group produced significantly more runs than the reactive group. This difference appears due to a greater tendency for process schizophrenics to produce runs of 1 (simple alternations), a form of response stereotypy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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