The process-reactive dimension and its relationship to thought disturbance in schizophrenia

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dc.contributor.advisorStonestreet, Geralden_ZA
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Roderick B Hen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-17T07:15:09Z
dc.date.available2016-03-17T07:15:09Z
dc.date.issued1976en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe intention of the present study is (a) to attempt to assess the relative merits of three contradictory models of thought disturbance in schizophrenia, and to effect (b) a reconciliation of these models by recourse to proposed differences in the scanning functions of process and reactive schizophrenics. The main hypotheses to be examined are as follows : (1) Schizophrenic patients as a whole should be pathologically susceptible to the effects of associative interference, whilst non-psychotic but psychiatrically disturbed persons and normals should reveal no such susceptibility. (2) Process schizophrenics should make significantly more stronger meaning response errors on Chapman et al.'s 1964 Lexical Ambiguities Test than either reactive schizophrenics, non-psychotic psychiatric patients or normals. (3) Process schizophrenics should have significantly shorter response latency times on Chapman et al.'s 1964 Lexical Ambiguities Test than reactive schizophrenics, non-psychotic psychiatric patients or normals. This latter hypothesis reflects a corollary to the concept of an interference reduction defense system amongst process patients. Response latency times have been employed as a rough measure of the extent of cognitive scanning. If process patients do discontinue scanning and editing early on in the two-stage process they should make their judgements sooner than reactives, and possibly normals and other psychiatric patients.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationAnderson, R. B. H. (1976). <i>The process-reactive dimension and its relationship to thought disturbance in schizophrenia</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17889en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationAnderson, Roderick B H. <i>"The process-reactive dimension and its relationship to thought disturbance in schizophrenia."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 1976. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17889en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationAnderson, R. 1976. The process-reactive dimension and its relationship to thought disturbance in schizophrenia. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Anderson, Roderick B H AB - The intention of the present study is (a) to attempt to assess the relative merits of three contradictory models of thought disturbance in schizophrenia, and to effect (b) a reconciliation of these models by recourse to proposed differences in the scanning functions of process and reactive schizophrenics. The main hypotheses to be examined are as follows : (1) Schizophrenic patients as a whole should be pathologically susceptible to the effects of associative interference, whilst non-psychotic but psychiatrically disturbed persons and normals should reveal no such susceptibility. (2) Process schizophrenics should make significantly more stronger meaning response errors on Chapman et al.'s 1964 Lexical Ambiguities Test than either reactive schizophrenics, non-psychotic psychiatric patients or normals. (3) Process schizophrenics should have significantly shorter response latency times on Chapman et al.'s 1964 Lexical Ambiguities Test than reactive schizophrenics, non-psychotic psychiatric patients or normals. This latter hypothesis reflects a corollary to the concept of an interference reduction defense system amongst process patients. Response latency times have been employed as a rough measure of the extent of cognitive scanning. If process patients do discontinue scanning and editing early on in the two-stage process they should make their judgements sooner than reactives, and possibly normals and other psychiatric patients. DA - 1976 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1976 T1 - The process-reactive dimension and its relationship to thought disturbance in schizophrenia TI - The process-reactive dimension and its relationship to thought disturbance in schizophrenia UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17889 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/17889
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationAnderson RBH. The process-reactive dimension and its relationship to thought disturbance in schizophrenia. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 1976 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17889en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherPsychologyen_ZA
dc.subject.otherClinical Psychologyen_ZA
dc.titleThe process-reactive dimension and its relationship to thought disturbance in schizophreniaen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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