Fifteen adult normals and institutionalized paranoid schizophrenics were employed in a dichotic listening task within a 2 (groups) X 2 (associated, • unassociated word list) X 2 (one-second and three-second presentation r^tes) design, with repeated measures on the last two variables. Dependent variables were word recall, intrusion errors, and strategy use and accuracy. Normals recalled significantly more information than paranoid schizophrenics under all memory conditions and had significantly fewer total intrusion errors. For both groups, information recall was significantly better under the associative conditions (particularly associative structure, three-second presentation rate). Under the varying structure conditions, paranoid schizophrenics did not employ optimal strategies with the same frequency or degree of accuracy as normals.
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