Walker et al's (1993) research with ethological coding among children

a. revealed that preschizophrenic children showed some of the same abnormal patterns of facial expression that occur after schizophrenic symptoms appear.
b. led to the finding that schizophrenics seldom had ethological profiles that resembled those of people in a control group.
c. showed that behaviors that were similar, like smiling versus grinning, were hard to differentiate reliably.
d. led to extensive use of ethological approaches in clinical research.


Ans: a. revealed that preschizophrenic children showed some of the same abnormal patterns of facial expression that occur after schizophrenic symptoms appear.

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