A comparison of the differential effects of stimulus complexity and response competition on schizophrenics.
The performance of hospitalized schizophrenics, subdivided on a paranoid/non-paranoid dimension, was compared to hospitalized controls on tasks intended to separate the effects of response competition and stimulus complexity. The data tended to provide consistent support for stimulus complexity explanations of performance deficits among schizophrenics, rather than explanations based upon response competition.
D001244:Association; D001288:Attention; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology