Redundancy-associated deficit in hypothetically schizophrenia-prone college students

The redundancy-associated deficit often found in schizophrenic simple reaction time was studied utilizing hypothetically schizophrenia-prone college students. The embedded-set procedure established by Bellissimo and Steffy (1972) with two methodological modifications was employed. As predicted normal and psychiatric controls did not show the redundancy-associated deficit. The hypothetically schizophrenia-prone college students did not show the cross-over effect typically produced by process schizophrenics. Several explanations were offered for these results.