Affective stimuli and disturbance of thought processes.

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The study investigated the effects of affectively toned and neutral adjectives on the incidental memory functioning of matched groups of 40 schizophrenic and normal female Ss. The adjectives which had been matched for familiarity and rated by judges were presented in a word association test in which the number of different associations, association recall, and stimulus word recognition scores were measured. Conclusions are: (a) schizophrenic Ss gave a larger number of different associations to affective words than normal Ss (.01 level); (b) there was no evidence that schizophrenic Ss, in comparison with normal Ss, recalled relatively more associations to neutral words than to affective words; (c) there was no evidence that schizophrenic Ss recognized stimulus words as well as normals. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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