Cognitive approach evaluations

Question 1

research support

Answer 1

-evidence for dysfunctional poor processing, researchers compared control group with schizophrenic group and they did tasks such as naming font colours, people with schizophrenia took twice as longer which shows the cognitive processes of people with schizophrenia are impaired

Question 2

limitation proximal explanation

Answer 2

only explains Proximal origins, so explains what happening now to produce the symptoms but doesn’t focus on what initially caused it, so provides partial explanations so we should use other approaches

Question 3

strength good explanations for symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 3

before it was argued that schizophrenia is a psychological condition, however the cognitive approach shows it’s partly genetic and psychological however, by having confusion with this means we may not be able to establish psychology as a science so we should use an interactionist approach to get both sides