PERCEPTUAL DYSFUNCTION AS A DETERMINANT OF SCHIZOPHRENIC WORD ASSOCIATIONS

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Abstract
Twenty matched pairs of schizophrenics and nonschizophrenics with normal hearing acuity were presented with 2 word lists, the 1st with instructions to repeat each word as rapidly as possible, and the 2nd to give the 1st word which came to mind. A response to the 1st list was scored as misheard if the subject repeated a word other than the stimulus word. A response to the 2nd list was scored as misheard if it was unrelated to the stimulus and formed an acceptable association with a word that was phonetically similar to the stimulus. Schizophrenics misheard significantly more stimulus words on both lists than did nonschizophrenics. The remaining distant associations did not differentiate the 2 groups.

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