Until other controlled studies are made to confirm or disconfirm these findings, we shall accept the conclusion that individual differences and possibly sex

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Psychopathology was more effective in predicting autistic responses to proverbs of acutely ill schizophrenic patients than was intelligence as measured by the Wechsler Vocabulary subtest. Autistic responses decreased significantly from pre-to postS wk. of hospital treatment. There was no difference in the frequency of these responses between high and low verbal IQ groups, nor did level of IQ affect the decrease in autistic responses. These findings were contrasted with those of a previous study which showed that the traditional abstract and concrete scores of responses to proverbs were highly correlated with intelligence even with the effects of pathology statistically controlled, and did not improve with treatment except when IQ was above average. The present study further demonstrated that while autistic responses were negatively related to abstract scores, they were relatively unrelated to concrete scores. The overall findings were consistent with both earlier theoretical formulations and more recent empirical investigations regarding cognitive deficit in schizophrenia.

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