Factor analytic contributions to the study of information processing in schizophrenia

Document Type

Article

Department or Administrative Unit

Psychology

Publication Date

10-1973

Abstract

According to reviews of the literature, the primary deficit of schizophrenics is related to “interference of thought processes.” Cameron presented the early view that such interference was due to a schizophrenic’s tendency to include irrelevant information in the performance of perceptual tasks. “Overinclusion” has been supported consistently by several authors with a variety of object sorting tasks. This study considered the effects of variable noise (overinclusion) on variable information loads.

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This article was originally published in Journal of Clinical Psychology. The full-text article from the publisher can be found here.

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Journal

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Rights

Copyright © 1973 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company

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