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Associational responses from 128 schizophrenic people and 120 healthy ones were collected. Four words with aggressive emotional shade were given as the stimuli. Semantic analysis of stimulus words was made, which made it possible to obtain a range of content categories. The collected material was analysed then according to them. Significant differences in five content categories were discovered. Basing on these differences we can infer that associational meaning at schizophrenic people is in some way varied. It was also possible to draw some conclusions concerning emotional life of the examined people.

Distributions of associational responses--to four emotionally neutral stimulus words--obtained from schizophrenic people and sane ones were compared. Significant differences in some content categories were discovered.

Hierarchies of the associational responses obtained from 128 schizophrenic people and 120 same ones were analyzed here. No statistically significant differences as to the matter were obtained in the most frequently occurring responses. In this way we corroborated the views of Broen and Storms--that appearances are not different in the groups of the mentally sane and insane. Therefore, the differences between both groups are to be sought on the periphery of the association response distributions and in idiosyncratic responses.

The subject of the study was in a trial of evaluation of selected behavioral patterns in patients with ulcerative colitis and acidpeptic disease of duodenum. As an evaluation method was employed the psychometric method consisting of the use of Nonconventional Adjectives Test the usefulness of which was confirmed in previous publications. The group of patients studied consisted of 65 persons with duodenal acid-peptic disease, 41 persons with ulcerative colitis and 72 healthy subject as a control group. The results obtained presented in a graphical manner reflected the psychological differences between above groups. Patients with ulcerative colitis were characterized by an increased fineness, sensibility or emotionality whereas those with duodenal acid-peptis disease selected adjectives indicating the lowered ability of self-control and of control on other people when compared with health subjects.