Bates, Timothy M2021-08-252021-08-251993https://hdl.handle.net/2292/56158Full text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.This thesis was initiated as a study of personality traits and electrophysio­logical dysfunctions which could underlie schizophrenia and yet which would also be detectable in the normal population, i.e, biological risk mark­ers rather than simple state signs. As it progressed, the thesis came more to focus on individual differences in thinking style including psychoticism as a variable affecting attention, schizotypy, as it conveys a cognitive slippage component which affects the development of thought, and also creativity as it affects the generation of associations. Part one of the thesis reports the de­velopment of scale measures of schizotypy and of creativity.Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.Restricted Item. Full text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htmThesisCopyright: The authorQ111963256