6. Psychological Explanation For Schizophrenia AO3

Question 1

Name a strength for psychological explanations

Answer 1

Support for different information processing - Stirling et al

Question 2

What did Stirling et al do

Answer 2

Compare to 30 patients with schizophrenia to 18 non-patients in a control group on cognitive tasks

Question 3

What did Stirling et al find

Answer 3

Patients took over twice as long as the control group to suppress the impulse to read the word and to name that in colour instead - supports theory of central control dysfunction - evidence show that processing differs in SZ patients

Question 4

Name a limitation for psychological explanations

Answer 4

Evidence for family relationships is often retrospective - Read et al

Question 5

What did Read et al study

Answer 5

Reviewed at 46 studies and concluded that 69% of all adult female inpatients with schizophrenia had a history of physical or sexual abuse in childhood

Question 6

Why does Read et al’s research create an issue

Answer 6

Most of the evidence is based on information about childhood experience gathered long after diagnosis - symptoms may have distorted the patient recall of the childhood experiences - creates problem with validity