A new method for studying disorders of conceptual thinking.

Rashkis, Harold A.; Cushman, Jane F.; Landis, Carney

doi:10.1037/h0056196

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“…A somewhat novel approach to the psychological study of paresis is offered in studies by Rashkis, Cushman, and Landis (225) and Rashkis (224). The former study involved the administration of a word-sorting test to normal adults, normal children, general paretics, and schizophrenics equated for educational achievement.…”

Section: Organic Psychoses and De-mentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological consequences of brain lesions and ablations.

Klebanoff¹,

Singer²,

Wilensky³

1954

Psychological Bulletin

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Section: Organic Psychoses and De-mentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological consequences of brain lesions and ablations.

Klebanoff¹,

Singer²,

Wilensky³

1954

Psychological Bulletin

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“…Two of the cited studies (Fey, 1951;Lothrop, 1960) actually support the impairment in abstract conceptualization point of view. If one considers the study by Rashkis et al (1946) in conjunction with the cited study by Rashkis (1947), one finds yet another study supporting the impairment thesis. The results of two other cited studies (Chapman & Taylor, 1957;White, 1949) are at least consistent with the notion that schizophrenics fail to utilize abstract concepts.…”

Section: Evidence Cited Against the Impairment In Abstract Conceptual...mentioning

confidence: 97%

“…The initial study by Rashkis et al (1946) employed four groups of subjects: normal adults, normal children, schizophrenic patients, and general paretic patients. Neither the schizophrenics, the children, nor the paretics achieved the abstract level of grouping.…”

Section: Evidence Cited Against the Impairment In Abstract Conceptual...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the results of the study support the proposition that schizophrenics are impaired in abstract conceptualization. Unfortunately at the end of the article, Rashkis et al (1946) engaged in a semantic shift which led them to conclude that "schizophrenics can think in an abstract way (p. 47)."…”

Section: Evidence Cited Against the Impairment In Abstract Conceptual...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Impairment in abstract conceptualization in schizophrenia.

Wright¹

1975

Psychological Bulletin

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In recent years Goldstein's and Vigotsky's notion that schizophrenics are impaired in abstract conceptualization has been challenged by many investigators. Following a review of terminological and theoretical issues, the evidence derived from investigations employing sorting test methods and principles is critically examined. Research findings are interpreted as strongly supporting the Goldstein-Vigotsky position. Critics' dissatisfaction with the early theorists' proposals appears to be based on a misunderstanding of Goldstein's and Vigotsky's ideas and a faulty assessment of the available evidence.

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“…Other verbal tasks have been used to study disorders of conceptual think-383 ing (71). Only the normal adults were able to function at an abstract verbal level, and this ability differentiated them from children and from paretic and schizophrenic patients.…”

Section: New Uses Of Psychometric Testsmentioning

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Chapter II: Studies of Individuals

Strang¹,

Pansegrouw²

1948

Review of Educational Research

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IF IT is true that "wars begin in the minds of men," it is extremely important that we understand the dynamics of personality-why people behave as they do. Personality is still a vast domain in which much research is needed. During the three-year period covered by this issue, however, a number of significant books on personality have been written. Murphy's Personality, a Biosocial Approach to Origins and Structure (61) explores personality thru present research, not only in psychology but also in sociology, anthropology, and biology, and points the way to more significant research. Young likewise has a broad base for his study of Personality and Problems of Adjustment (98). Stagner has completely rewritten his Psychology of Personality (84), covering recent work in projective testing and supporting a point of view that emphasizes perception and the interior organization of experience. An important new anthology, Personality in Nature, Society and Culture (53), consisting of papers by thirty-seven authorities in the field, presents an orderly statement of our present knowledge of personality formation. The strictly experimental quantitative approach was taken by Eysenck in his Dimensions of Personality (32). Largely from researches carried on with 10,000 normal and neurotic subjects at a wartime mental hospital, Eysenck and his associates succeeded in factoring out and describing two main dimensions of personality, named, with reservations, "neuroticism" and "extraversion-introversion." Similar in its quantitative experimental emphasis is Cattell's Description and Measurement of Personality (18), in which he discussed the findings of published and unpublished studies and showed how clinical observation, rating of behavior, self-inventories, and objective tests have contributed to our understanding of the "factors, syndromes, and traits" of personality. Its emphasis is on methods of research. Entirely concerned with methodology is Rapaport, Gill, and Schafer's second volume on Diagnostic Psychological Testing (70).Much of the research that would naturally be included in this chapter has been recently reviewed by Anderson and Embree in the REVIEW for

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A new method for studying disorders of conceptual thinking.

Cited by 24 publications

References 6 publications

Psychological consequences of brain lesions and ablations.

Psychological consequences of brain lesions and ablations.

Impairment in abstract conceptualization in schizophrenia.

Chapter II: Studies of Individuals

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