1987
DOI: 10.1159/000284501
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The Nature of Overinclusive Thinking in Schizophrenia

Abstract: Schizophrenics were compared with neurotic controls on four tests of categorical thinking in an attempt to discover the nature of overinclusive thinking. The tests provided both verbal and nonverbal measures of conceptual loosening, the proportion of out-of-category items, distortion of the internal structure of a category and any tendency towards overcategorization. The results showed that schizophrenics were relatively worse on nonverbal than on verbal categories with, in particular, a greater degree of conc… Show more

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“…The young age of onset of clinical symptoms and lack of psychosis in ASD were later recognized as the main features that separated SZ from ASD. While they are now recognized as distinct disorders, their shared cognitive symptoms include impairments in social interaction and communication, deficits in processing emotion ( Wallace et al, 2011 ; Brune, 2003 ; Morrison et al, 1998 ), theory of mind abilities ( Pilowsky et al, 2000 ), language skills ( Magaud et al, 2010 ) and learning ( Titone et al, 2004 ), and the inability to suppress irrelevant information ( Bird et al, 2006 ; Cutting et al, 1987 ). There are currently no medical tests available for either disorder.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The young age of onset of clinical symptoms and lack of psychosis in ASD were later recognized as the main features that separated SZ from ASD. While they are now recognized as distinct disorders, their shared cognitive symptoms include impairments in social interaction and communication, deficits in processing emotion ( Wallace et al, 2011 ; Brune, 2003 ; Morrison et al, 1998 ), theory of mind abilities ( Pilowsky et al, 2000 ), language skills ( Magaud et al, 2010 ) and learning ( Titone et al, 2004 ), and the inability to suppress irrelevant information ( Bird et al, 2006 ; Cutting et al, 1987 ). There are currently no medical tests available for either disorder.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Since Bleuler [86], cognitive impairment in SCZ has been focused on associative disturbance. Later, difficulties in abstract attitude and overinclusive thinking were added to the core features for SCZ [87]. Currently, a huge amount of evidences has found deficits in speed of processing, attention/vigilance, working memory, verbal/visual learning, problem solving, and social cognition [88]).…”
Section: Clinical Featuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Cameron has suggested that the core feature of thought disorders in schizophrenia was overinclusive thinking, a vagueness of boundaries between concepts making them overextensive and able to accommodate logical contradictions (Cameron, 1939). Subsequent studies have provided support for this notion (Chen et al, 1994;Cutting et al, 1987;Payne, 1973). The study by Chen and colleagues used a task that required subjects to verify words as members or non-members of a conceptual category.…”
Section: Semantic Memorymentioning
confidence: 99%