Acta Medica Medianae
Vol. 41
No 2, 2002
UDK 61
YU ISSN 0365-4478
Kontakt:
Snežana Manojlović,
Clinicfor Psychiatry ofthe Clinic Center, Niš
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COGNITIVE
COMPLEXITY OF SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS
Snežana Manojlović and Julijana Nikolić-Popović
Clinicfor Psychiatry ofthe Clinic Center, Niš
The aim of the paper
is to determine precisely the conceptual organization characteristics
expressed in cognitive complexity. This would provide or an application
of specific therapeutic techniques for the sake of compensating for the
primary cognitive deficit.
The paper presents an examination of cognitive complexity in
schizophrenic patients in comparison with a group of normal sobjects by
applying the test of role playing. The test is carried out in the phase
of the presence of psychotic symptoms and after its withdrawal.
The results show that there is neither in the first nor in the
second measurement any significant difference in the cognitive
complexity score between the schizophrenic and the normal subjects.The
cognitive complexity reflects the formal potential of the conceptual
organization to differentiate meanings. The schizophrenic patients'
inability to achieve the real meaning along with the potential for the
formally differentiated conceptual organization point to the weakness of
the conceptual organization that is manifested in inconsistency.
Key words:
Cognitive complexity, schizophrenia |