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To determine if the slower performance of schizophrenics is due to slower data processing, the reaction times (RT) of schizophrenic and non-schizophrenic psychiatric Ss (controls) were compared on a simple and two-choice jump RT task. Schizophrenics were slower than controls on both tasks; the slope of the schizophrenics was flatter than the controls. The latter finding indicated that the slower performance of the schizophrenics was not due to processing data more slowly than controls.
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1. The author is grateful to Dr. H. R. Albrecht of VA hospital, Chillicothe, and to Dr. D. H. Burk of Harding Hospital for the use of the patients at their respective institutions.
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Karras, A. The effect of stimulus-response complexity on the reaction time of schizophrenics. Psychon Sci 7, 75–76 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331085
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