Bio expl - neural correlates evaluation

Question 1

Evaluate neural correlates (simply)

Answer 1

✗ Causation problems - what comes first?
✗ Ignores environmental factors in brain abnormality
✓Could explain why some people don’t respond to drug treatments

Question 2

Explain ‘✗ Causation problems - what comes first?’

Answer 2

It doesn’t explain if the unusual activity of the brain region causes the symptoms of schizophrenia or the symptoms cause the unusual activity

Question 3

Explain ‘✗ Ignores environmental factors in brain abnormality’

Answer 3

There is the lack of consideration of the role of environmental factors in brain abnormality - such as substance abuse and stress levels as they may also be having a damaging effect upon brain tissue
This means there are external factors other than neural correlates that need to be taken into consideration