The immediacy hypothesis and response-produced stimuli in schizophrenic speech

Kurt Salzinger; Stephanie Portnoy; David B. Pisoni; Richard S. Feldman

doi:10.1037/h0029887

The immediacy hypothesis and response-produced stimuli in schizophrenic speech

Kurt Salzinger, Stephanie Portnoy, David B. Pisoni, Richard S. Feldman

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Abstract

Compared speech samples emitted by 10 schizophrenics individually matched with 10 normals and used them to test the validity of the immediacy hypothesis, which states that schizophrenics are primarily controlled by the immediate aspects of their environment, whether response-produced or external. The cloze responses of 230 undergraduates to the verbal samples indicated that schizophrenic speech consists of relatively short strings of words related to one another, while in normal speech the dependency of 1 word on another holds over longer spans. Results are interpreted to mean that schizophrenics have a greater tendency than normals to be controlled by immediate stimuli (in this case, response-produced), thus providing further evidence for the immediacy hypothesis. (20 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	258-264
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Volume	76
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/h0029887
State	Published - Oct 1970

Keywords

speech, control by immediate environmental aspects, use of cloze technique, schizophrenics

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Psychiatry and Mental health
Biological Psychiatry

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