A comparison was made of a recently developed instrument, the Masculine Gender-identity scale of Blanchard and Freund with other measures of sex-role, namely, the mf scale of the MMPI and Bern's (1974) sex-role inventory. Scores for 296 women and 200 men from introductory courses in psychology were minimally correlated. The analysis indicated that the masculine identity scale is an independent measure which has utility contingent upon questions asked about gender-related phenomena.
The frequently reported inability of schizophrenics to disregard irrelevancy was investigated within the framework of information theory. Quantitative and qualitative noise levels were varied with levels of relevant information. Chronic schizophrenics ( N = 30) were compared with tubercular controls and community volunteers ( Ns = 30) on a task consisting of the tachistoscopic presentation of dots in the presence of noise. The results substantiated an earlier study that demonstrated schizophrenics have relatively more difficulty processing information under low-noise conditions. Intelligence, by covariance analysis, did not account for the low-noise effect. Institutionalization was related to information-processing deficiencies.
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