Psychological explanation: dysfunctional thought processing

Question 1

Bentall et al

Answer 1

• asked participants to either generate category items themselves or read out category items (e.g. animals beginning with ‘b’)
• a week later, participants were asked whether they had generated themselves, read them out or if the words were new
• schizophrenic participants with hallucinations performed worse than those without hallucinations
• participants without schizophrenia performed better than both