'Cloze' procedure refined and modified. 'Modified Cloze', 'reverse Cloze' and the use of predictability as a measure of communication problems in psychosis

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 172, Issue FEB., 1998, Pages 136-141

  Newby, David ^a  

^a Millfield House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031931188     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.172.2.136     Document Type: Article

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