A demonstration of verbal abstracting ability in chronic schizophrenics under enriched stimulus and instructional conditions.

1 October 1962

journal article
Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Consulting Psychology

Vol. 26 (5) , 471-475
https://doi.org/10.1037/h0045408

Abstract

Ss matched on WAIS vocabulary. "In one session the Ss were asked to give the meaning of a single proverb, and in the other session were asked to give the meaning of sets of proverbs, each of which had the same meaning. The results showed that the chronic schizophrenics improved their performance under the proverb set condition, and also showed greater improvement than the normal Ss. Chronic schizophrenics apparently have not lost the capacity for verbal abstraction, but may possibly fail to deal effectively in some ways with incoming stimuli." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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