Shift in judgment of weights as a function of anchoring stimuli and instructions in early schizophrenics and normals.
- 1 July 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
- Vol. 55 (1) , 43-49
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0041611
Abstract
A weight judgment task was administered to 16 schizophrenic patients and 16 normals for 2 sessions. The two groups did not differ from each other in ability to discriminate between the weight stimuli, but the schizophrenics shifted significantly more than the normals in the heavy anchor condition, thus providing evidence for the theory that schizophrenics are more prone to react to concrete than to abstract stimuli, as well as for the theory that schizophrenics are less able to maintain constancy in weight judgment than normals." 18 references.Keywords
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