Question 1

The interactionist approach

Accepted Answer

The interactionist approach is a broad approach to explaining schizophrenia, which acknowledges that there are a range of factors (biological, psychological and societal factors) involved in the development of schizophrenia

Question 2

What is the interactionist approach also sometimes called?

Accepted Answer

The interactionist approach is also sometimes called the 'biosocial approach'

Question 3

The interactionist approach is a broad approach to explaining schizophrenia, which acknowledges that there are a range of factors (biological, psychological and societal factors) involved in the development of schizophrenia. What do biological factors include?

Accepted Answer

Biological factors include genetic vulnerability and neurochemical and neurological abnormality

Question 4

The interactionist approach is a broad approach to explaining schizophrenia, which acknowledges that there are a range of factors (biological, psychological and societal factors) involved in the development of schizophrenia. Biological factors include genetic vulnerability and neurochemical and neurological abnormality. What do psychological factors include?

Accepted Answer

Psychological factors include stress, for example resulting from life events and daily hassles, including poor quality interactions in the family

Question 5

What does diathesis mean?

Accepted Answer

Diathesis means vulnerability

Question 6

Diathesis means vulnerability. In the context of schizophrenia, what does stress simply mean?

Accepted Answer

In the context of schizophrenia, stress simply means a negative psychological experience

Question 7

Diathesis means vulnerability. In the context of schizophrenia, stress simply means a negative psychological experience. The diathesis-stress model says that both what are necessary in order to develop the condition?

Accepted Answer

The diathesis-stress model says that both a vulnerability to schizophrenia and a stress-trigger are necessary in order to develop the condition

Question 8

Diathesis means vulnerability. In the context of schizophrenia, stress simply means a negative psychological experience. The diathesis-stress model says that both a vulnerability to schizophrenia and a stress-trigger are necessary in order to develop the condition. One or more underlying factors make a person particularly vulnerable to developing schizophrenia, but

Accepted Answer

One or more underlying factors make a person particularly vulnerable to developing schizophrenia, but the onset of the condition is triggered by stress

Question 9

The diathesis-stress model

Accepted Answer

The diathesis-stress model is an interactionist approach to explaining behaviour

Question 10

The diathesis-stress model is an interactionist approach to explaining behaviour. Example

Accepted Answer

For example, schizophrenia is explained as the result of both an underlying vulnerability (diathesis) and a trigger, both of which are necessary for the onset of schizophrenia

Question 11

The diathesis-stress model is an interactionist approach to explaining behaviour. For example, schizophrenia is explained as the result of both an underlying vulnerability (diathesis) and a trigger, both of which are necessary for the onset of schizophrenia. In early versions of the diathesis-stress model, vulnerability was genetic and triggers were psychological. Nowadays,

Accepted Answer

Nowadays, both genes and trauma are seen as diatheses and stress can be psychological or biological in nature

Question 12

In the original diathesis-stress model (who, when)

Accepted Answer

In the original diathesis-stress model (Meehl, 1962)

Question 13

In the original diathesis-stress model (Meehl, 1962), diathesis (vulnerability) was

Accepted Answer

In the original diathesis-stress model (Meehl, 1962), diathesis (vulnerability) was entirely genetic

Question 14

In the original diathesis-stress model (Meehl, 1962), diathesis (vulnerability) was entirely genetic, the result of what?

Accepted Answer

In the original diathesis-stress model (Meehl, 1962), diathesis (vulnerability) was entirely genetic, the result of a single 'schizogene'

Question 15

In the original diathesis-stress model (Meehl, 1962), diathesis (vulnerability) was entirely genetic, the result of a single 'schizogene.' What did this lead to?

Accepted Answer

This led to the development of a biologically based schizotypic personality

Question 16

In the original diathesis-stress model (Meehl, 1962), diathesis (vulnerability) was entirely genetic, the result of a single 'schizogene.' This led to the development of a biologically based schizotypic personality, one characteristic of which is what?

Accepted Answer

This led to the development of a biologically based schizotypic personality, one characteristic of which is sensitivity to stress

Question 17

In the original diathesis-stress model (Meehl, 1962), diathesis (vulnerability) was entirely genetic, the result of a single 'schizogene.' This led to the development of a biologically based schizotypic personality, one characteristic of which is sensitivity to stress. According to Paul Meehl, if a person does not have the schizogene, then

Accepted Answer

According to Paul Meehl, if a person does not have the schizogene, then no amount of stress would lead to schizophrenia

Question 18

In the original diathesis-stress model (Meehl, 1962), diathesis (vulnerability) was entirely genetic, the result of a single 'schizogene.' This led to the development of a biologically based schizotypic personality, one characteristic of which is sensitivity to stress. According to Paul Meehl, if a person does not have the schizogene, then no amount of stress would lead to schizophrenia. However, in carriers of the gene,

Accepted Answer

However, in carriers of the gene, chronic stress through childhood and adolescence, in particular the presence of a schizophrenogenic mother, could result in the development of the condition

Question 19

The modern understanding of diathesis: One way in which our understanding of diathesis has changed

Accepted Answer

One way in which our understanding of diathesis has changed is that it is now clear that many genes each appear to increase genetic vulnerability sightly

Question 20

The modern understanding of diathesis: One way in which our understanding of diathesis has changed is that it is now clear that many genes each appear to increase genetic vulnerability sightly - there is no

Accepted Answer

One way in which our understanding of diathesis has changed is that it is now clear that many genes each appear to increase genetic vulnerability sightly - there is no single 'schizogene' (Ripke et al, 2014)

Question 21

The modern understanding of diathesis: One way in which our understanding of diathesis has changed is that it is now clear that many genes each appear to increase genetic vulnerability sightly - there is no single 'schizogene' (Ripke et al, 2014). What do modern views of diathesis also include?

Accepted Answer

Modern views of diathesis also include a range of factors beyond genetics, including psychological trauma (Ingram and Luxton, 2005)

Question 22

The modern understanding of diathesis: One way in which our understanding of diathesis has changed is that it is now clear that many genes each appear to increase genetic vulnerability sightly - there is no single 'schizogene' (Ripke et al, 2014). Modern views of diathesis also include a range of factors beyond genetics, including psychological trauma (Ingram and Luxton, 2005) - so what?

Accepted Answer

Modern views of diathesis also include a range of factors beyond genetics, including psychological trauma (Ingram and Luxton, 2005) - so trauma becomes the diathesis, rather than the stressor

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