The present study investigated whether chronic schizophrenics utilized primitive or precausal thought processes in explaining verbally the causes of non-affective events learned under extra-laboratory conditions and displayed deficit in explaining verbally the causes of non-affective events learned under the same conditions. The results suggest that, when Ss are carefully matched with normals on relevant demographic variables, differences in learning and the reporting of non-affective events disappear.
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