Effects of biological and social motivation on schizophrenic reaction time.

1957 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Rosenbaum ◽  
William R. Mackavey ◽  
James L. Grisell
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Social Motivation ◽  
Schizophrenic Reaction

Reaction Time Indices of Schizophrenic Motivation: A Cross-Cultural Replication

1967 ◽  
Vol 113 (498) ◽  
pp. 537-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Rosenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Social Motivation ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Psychomotor Function ◽  
Preparatory Set ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients

Consistent decrements in schizophrenic performance on a reaction time (RT) task obtained by a number of investigators indicate that RT procedures yield reliable indices of schizophrenic deficits in attention (1, 2, 10), motivation (3), preparatory set (8), and psychomotor function (4). In previous studies (6, 7), the writer has presented evidence that these deficits may be attributable to impaired social motivation, in that these RT disturbances can be eliminated in most schizophrenics by activating biological motivation through shocks to the reacting finger. Older, more disorganized patients were unable to improve, however, even with shock motivation. Systematic comparisons of older and younger schizophrenic patients with and without ground privilege status, resulted in the finding that reduced social motivation, lessened reactivity to shock stimulation, and inability to cope with unpredictable anxiety cues constituted relatively independent dimensions of schizophrenic deficit in RT.

Individual differences, social attention, and the history of the social motivation hypotheses of autism

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Mundy
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Social Motivation ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
Social Emotional Development ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Precise Understanding ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Abstract The stereotype of people with autism as unresponsive or uninterested in other people was prominent in the 1980s. However, this view of autism has steadily given way to recognition of important individual differences in the social-emotional development of affected people and a more precise understanding of the possible role social motivation has in their early development.

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