Comparison of Non-Brain-Damaged Schizophrenic and Brain-Damaged Non-Schizophrenic Males on the Wist
- 1 February 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 32 (1) , 187-194
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1973.32.1.187
Abstract
The present investigation is addressed to the issue of differential diagnosis of schizophrenia and brain damage in the area of thought disorder. The Whitaker Index of Schizophrenic Thinking (WIST), Form A, was used to ascertain the extent and type of thought disorder of the two groups of Ss (male VA patients). Results showed that the WIST Summary score did not differentiate the two groups of Ss. Subtest scores and error types, however, discriminated the two groups. Results were discussed in light of Mednick's theory of psychological deficit and in terms of contributions to variance stemming from the test's psychometric properties (i.e., stimulus complexity).Keywords
This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
- Psychological Deficit in Schizophrenia and Brain DamageAnnual Review of Psychology, 1970
- The Center for Studies of SchizophreniaSchizophrenia Bulletin, 1969
- Confusion of figurative and literal usages of words by schizophrenics and brain damaged patients.The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1960
- Learning theory and schizophrenia: A reply to a comment.Psychological Bulletin, 1959
- A learning theory approach to research in schizophrenia.Psychological Bulletin, 1958
- Differences between schizophrenic and brain-damaged groups in conceptual aspects of object sorting.The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1957
- On the psychology of so-called processes of abstraction.The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1941