STUDY OF SOCIAL AND COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

该项目的目的是使用以下技术： 实验心理学来研究 精神分裂症患者的社交和认知功能 一个问题 正在处理的是社会状况对 精神分裂症患者的表现 这是在一个实验中完成的， 精神分裂症患者执行一项感知任务， 呈现刺激并评估反应准确性。 反馈 由实验者或计算机提供， 比较被试对两种反馈的反应。 同时也在计划研究 精神分裂症患者通过检查他们在实验中的表现， 通常有效的认知过程实际上 损害正常人的表现水平。 这将是 这样做是为了看看是否可能在相关方面的缺陷， 精神分裂症患者的认知功能 性能水平超过正常。

The purpose of this project is to use the techniques of experimental psychology to investigate the nature of schizophrenics' social and cognitive functioning. One question being addressed is that of the effect of social situations on schizophrenics' performance. This is done in an experiment where schizophrenics perform a perceptual task in which a computer presents stimuli and evaluates response accuracy. Feedback is provided either by the experimenter or by the computer and subjects' responses to the two types of feedback are compared. Plans are also underway to study the cognitive functioning of schizophrenics by examining their performance in experimental situations in which normally effective cognitive processes actually impair the performance levels of normal individuals. This will be done in order to see whether possible deficits in revelant aspects of schizophrenics' cognitive functioning might permit their performance level to surpass that of normals.