The results indicated that schizophrenics respond as well as normals to competitive stimuli under the appropriate conditions. Competitive effects seem to be no different than a host of other activators which reduce the psychological deficit" of schizophrenics. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of competition on the level of schizophrenic thought disorder by having groups of schizophrenics perform a task under competitive and noncompetitive conditions. (Author)

It was concluded that, at best, self-presentation effects are weak and unobserved by the current investigators (Beta error), or at worst the result of extraneous sources of variation. (Author)

Explored behaviors of students at various times during an examination to examine the relationship between test anxiety and test performance. Results indicated that low test anxious students differed significantly on all eight dependent variables with the level of test anxiety having a significant effect. (Author)