THE RELATIONSHIPS OF SOME INFORMATION-PROCESSING FACTORS TO SEVERELY DISTURBED BEHAVIOR

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Psychiatric inpatients (35) with heterogeneous diagnoses were given 4 tasks: Mueller-Lyer Illusion, Wisconsin Card Sorting Text, Object Sorting and Rokeach dogmatism questionnaire. Tasks were chosen to represent a broad sampling of paradigms, spanning levels of information processing, involving perceptual, conceptual and attitudinal processes. Subjects'' behavior was assessed by the Inpatient Multidimensional Psychiatric Scale (IMPS). Each IMPS scale was analyzed in turn as a function of perceptual/cognitive variables, in multiple regression analysis. To provide basis for comparison, traditional clinical measures were included as independent variables (MMPI [Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory] scales) and dependent variables (intelligence, chronicity and premorbid adjustment). Different patterns of disordered behavior were predicted by different perceptual/cognitive variables. Interrelationships of all variables suggested 3 subject groups: chronic, process-type schizophrenics with perceptual abnormalities, paranoid patients with conceptual abnormalities and affectively disordered patients with predominantly attitudinal abnormalities.

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