Cognitive Explanation Flashcards
What does the thorny suggest?
Disturbed thinking processes are the cause of schizophrenia
What leads people to paranoia
Mistaking what’s unreal for something real
Why can’t schizophrenics filter out relevant information
Processing symptoms are defective and get overwhelmed by sensory information
What did Hemesley suggest
Schizophrenias is caused by a breakdown in the relationship of information already stored and incoming information
Why did Hemesley suggest that superficial incidents are more relevant
The schizophrenic doesn’t know which aspects to attend to in which to ignore
How does the cognitive model link to the biological model
Because there must be some biological wrong in the first place to create the incorrect reality
Outline some research evidence into the cognitive explanation of schizophrenia
Meyer and lindenberg found a link between access data mean in the Pre frontal cortex and the state of working memory
What is Meyer and Lindenbergs research suggest
There is a link between faulty processing and high dopamine levels which supports the connection between the biological and cognitive model
Outline the real life application point for the cognitive model
Yellowlees created a machine which create hallucinations which shows the schizophrenics that the hallucinations aren’t real
What’s the limitation of yellowlees experiment
There is little evidence to show that it will work
