Individual differences in negative priming: Relations with schizotypal personality traits
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Colleges, School and Institutes
Abstract
A study is reported of normal subjects, selected for degree of schizotypal personality traits, on a cognitive task designed to measure, in a negative priming paradigm, the extent to which they differed in interference and presumed inhibitory effects on performance. The main individual differences measure used - a new scale of schizotypy - showed, as predicted, a significant correlation with negative priming. The correlation with a measure of ‘interference’ was non-significant but in the expected direction. The results are judged relevant to research implicating a weakening of inhibitory selective mechanisms in schizophrenia and to models in abnormal psychology proposing a continuum between normal and abnormal cognitive function. As such, they suggest a soundly based theoretical approach to the analysis of the individual variations in information processing commonly observed in general cognitive psychology.
Details
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 349-356 |
Journal | British Journal of Psychology |
Volume | 78 |
Issue number | 3 |
Publication status | Published - 1987 |