The present paper describes the relation between two skin-resistance measures and size estimation for previously described schizophrenic subgroups; in the acute poor and chronic good subgroups size estimation was positively related to drive for paranoids and negatively related for nonparanoids. Paranoids in the chronic poor subgroup exhibited a negative size estimation-drive relationship. This was considered as due to reduction in drive which allowed emergence of a functioning perceptual organization that permitted S to attend to the task and show a corresponding increase in size estimation.
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