| Abstract: | Compared the performance of 30 paranoid schizophrenics, nonparanoid schizophrenics, and tuberculosis patients (controls) in a VA Hospital on motor, perceptual, and cognitive tasks of increasing complexity. The data are examined within the context of comparing differential predictions made by input and central processing theories of information-processing deficit. Results indicate that paranoid schizophrenics were comparable to nonschizophrenics in the amounts of information they could process, while nonparanoid schizophrenics reached a stage of information overload with tasks of relatively less complexity. (27 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
