AO3 evaluation of cognitive approach

Question 1

give a supporting research for cog explanation

Answer 1

Pots

Question 2

what did POTS find

Answer 2

found that CBT drastically decreased OCD paitents obsessions and compulsion by 39.3%

Question 3

how does POTS evidance support cog explination

Answer 3

t/f shows that maladaptive cognition causes OCD and can be treated with CBT increasing the validity of the theory

Question 4

what is a further supporting research point for cog explination

Answer 4

libby et al

Question 5

what did libby et al find

Answer 5

looked at cognative apprasals on 28 young people with OCD 28 people with anxiety disorders and 632 people without a disorder

Question 6

what did libby et al find from this

Answer 6

that those with OCD had a higher score than the other two groups regarding raised responsibility aswell as thought-action linking as well as having a higher score on concern over mistakes

Question 7

how does libby et als research then support the cog explination

Answer 7

t/f increasing the validitry of the cog explination as maladaptive cognition is cause of OCD

Question 8

how can pota supporting research be critisied

Answer 8

although POTS found that OCD symptoms decrease when undergoing cbt POTS found that OCD obsessions and compulsion decrease significantly more when CBT is combined with drug therapy

Question 9

how does this oppose the cognative approach

Answer 9

t/f suggesting that OCD osessions and compulsions are not just caused by maladaptive cognition but other factors such as neurotransmitters can cuase OCD thus reducing the validity of the cog approach

Question 10

what is anouther supporting research for the cognative approach

Answer 10

stekett et al

Question 11

what did stekett et al find

Answer 11

found the people with OCD scored higherhigher on cognative measures compared to those with anxiety disorders. a correlation was found between how severe the OCD symptom was and the level of dysfunctional thinking sufferer experianced

Question 12

how does this then support the cog explanation

Answer 12

t/f increasing the validity of maladaptive cognition in explaining OCD

Question 13

what is an opposing evidance to the cog explanation

Answer 13

rachman

Question 14

what did rachman find

Answer 14

developed exposure and response therapy

Question 15

what did this therapy involve

Answer 15

elements of flooding and training a person to have a different response to their obsesion

Question 16

what does this mean for OCD

Answer 16

ERP is an effective treatment for OCD

Question 17

how does this then oppose the cog explination

Answer 17

t/f suggesting that a person can learn to respond differently to obsessions sugesting it isn’t a biological basis reducing the validity of maladaptive cognition on expliaining OCD

Question 18

how else can the cog explination be critizied

Answer 18

reductionist

Question 19

why is the cog explination reductionist

Answer 19

it’s not a holistic explinantion of OCD as it argues that OCD as it argues that OCD is a cuase of maladaptive processwing from things such as an inflated sense of self

Question 20

how does this then oppose the cog explination of OCD

Answer 20

t/f this a reductionist theory as it doesn’t account for other explanation which is based on nature thus reducing the validity of the cog explanation