cognitive factors

• Stirling et al (2006) conducted the stroop test on 30 patients with schizophrenia and 18 control patients. The task involved naming the ink colours without saying the word. This is difficult as there is desire to say the words that needs to be controlled. Stirling found that patients with schizophrenia took twice as long to name the colours as controls. This shows that patients with schizophrenia show deficits in Central control tasks