This study examined whether auditory misperception of stimulus words on a word-association test can account for idiosyncratic responses of 37 schizophrenics. Results indicated performance comparable to 19 nonschizophrenics' under conditions of auditory and visual presentation, and thus did not support the position that mishearing of stimuli artifactually increased associative thought disturbance.
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