title: [Assessment of ability to transmit and receive information in schizophrenics and their mothers].
abstract: The cloze procedure was used to examine: predictability in speech samples from schizophrenics and their mothers as well as their ability to gain from the redundancy of language. Schizophrenic patients were found to be less predictable than normals, both schizophrenics and their mothers were less able to make use of the language context than controls did. The impact of disturbances in information processing on the family interactions was considered.
authors.affiliation: Katedry Psychologii Klinicznej ATK w Warszawie.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nieznański
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D012559:Schizophrenia; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology