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1、Psychology2011.Vol.2,No.5,416-425Copyright©2011SciRes.DOI:10.4236/psych.2011.25065OntheRelationshipbetweenMindandLanguage:TeachingEnglishVocabularytoSchizophrenics12AbdolmajidHayati,KhaledShahlaee1ShahidChamranUniversityofAhvaz,Ahvaz,Iran;2UniversityofScienceandResearch,Ah
2、vazBranch,Ahvaz,Iran.Email:majid_hayati@yahoo.comththrdReceivedMarch25,2011;revisedMay12,2011;acceptedJune23,2011.Undoubtedlymindisthemostcomplicatedmemberofhumanbeingandrespectivelyasmallbreakdowninwhateverprocessesundergonewillcausegreatdifficultiesforthebeholder.Oneofth
3、emostseriouspsycho-logicalimpairmentsisknownasschizophreniawhichseverelydistortsthoughtandaction(Hockenbury&Hockenbury,2004).Thepresentstudyissetouttoinvestigatethecapabilityofpatientswithschizophreniaindoingdifferentvocabularytasksonsecondlanguageandretainingthemforaperio
4、doftime.Eightmalepatientsdiagnosedwithschizophreniaofdifferenttypeswereselectedfromtwomentalcenterstoparticipateinthestudy.Theywereinvitedtoattendaclassfor16sessionsin8weeksanddovocabularytasksincludingmatchingwordstothepictures,fillingtheblanks,wordassociation,crosswordpu
5、zzle,andwordfinding.Atestwasadministeredrightaftertheperiodandtheretestwasadministered16dayslater.Thestudyillustratedthatthereisnosignifi-cantrelationshipbetweenageandlearningvocabularyitemsbypatientssufferingfromschizophrenia.More,schizophrenicsshoweddifferentcapabilities
6、indoingvocabularytasks,andtheyalsoshoweddifferentimpair-mentsintheirattempttolearnforeignlanguagewords.Theyalsofoundsomeofthetasksdemandingastheybecomemorecognitivelydifficult.Keywords:PsychologicalImpairment,Schizophrenia,VocabularyTaskIntroductionmultiplepersonalitysplit
7、andasplitfromrealitythatshowsitselfindisorganizedthinking,disturbedperceptions,andinap-Oneofthemainbranchesoflinguisticsknownaspsycho-propriateemotionsandactions(Myers,1996).Elsewhere,linguisticshaslongbeenanareaattractingresearchersandHockenburyandHockenbury(2004)definesc
8、hizophreniaaslinguiststoinvestigateandfindanytraceoflanguageinhumanoneofthemostseriouspsy
