title: Distractibility among paranoid and non-paranoid schizophrenics using subtests matched for discriminating power.
abstract: The performance of hospitalized schizophrenics broken down into paranoid and non-paranoid subgroups was compared with that of two control groups on an auditory distraction test designed to rule out the confounding effect of differences between the distraction and non-distraction subtests in discriminating power. The results supported the hypothesis of schizophrenic distractibility.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000523:psychology*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology