5. Psychological Explanation For Schizophrenia AO1 Flashcards

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What did Fromm-Reichmann study?

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Psychodynamic explanations based in parentsโ€™ early experiences of schizophrenic mothers

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What are schizophrenic mothers

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Mothers who cause schizophrenia

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What are the characteristics of schizophrenic mothers

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Cold, rejecting and controlling - create a family climate of tension and secrecy - which leads to distrust and paranoid delusions and even schizophrenia

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Who did Fromm-Reichmann study

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Schizophrenic mothers

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What was Bateson at el procedure?

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He describes how a child may be regularly trapped in situations where they for doing the wrong thing, but received conflicting messages about what counts as wrong - cannot express their feelings about the unfairness of the situation

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What happens when a child gets it wrong

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The child is punished by withdrawal of love - they learn the world is confusing and dangerous - leading to disorganised thinking and delusions

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What did Bateson at el study

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Double-bind theory

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What is expressed emotion

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The level of emotion expressed towards the schizophrenic patient

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What does expressed emotion include

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  1. Verbal criticism of the patient
  2. Hostility towards them
  3. Emotional over-involvement in their life
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What to high levels of expressed emotion lead to

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Causes stress in the patient, a primary explanation for relapse in patients with schizophrenia

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What is dysfunctional thought processing

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Lower levels of information processing

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What does dysfunctional thought processing lead to

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Suggests cognition is impaired

e.g. reduced processing in ventral striatum - negative symptoms

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What is metarepresentation

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The cognitive ability to reflect on thought and behaviour

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What does metarepresentation lead to

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This dysfunction disrupts our ability to reorganise our thoughts as our own - could lead to the sensation of hearing voices and having thoughts placed in the mind by others

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What does dysfunction of central control lead to

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Speech poverty

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What did Frith et al look at

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He identified this function of central control as a way to explain speech poverty

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What is central control

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The cognitive ability to suppress automatic responses while performing deliberate actions

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What do people with schizophrenia experience

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Derailment of thoughts and spoken sentences because each word triggers automatic associations that they cannot surpress