How to make a good cup of tea: exploring the scripts of thought-disordered and non-thought-disordered patients.
Thought-disordered and non-thought-disordered schizophrenic patients, psychometrically defined, were compared with control patients on a task requiring them to describe how to make a good cup of tea. Schizophrenic patients produced less detail on how to prepare tea and thought-disordered patients, in particular, omitted optional actions involved in serving tea. A number of alternative hypotheses for incoherence are considered in terms of the data and the cognitive complexity of a mental representation is advanced as one crucial factor.
D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013060:Speech; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014956:Writing