Cognitive Explanation AO1

Question 1

What does the cognitive explanation say Schizophrenia is caused by?

Answer 1

faulty and dysfunctional thought processing

Question 2

What are the two types of dysfunctional processing that causes Schizophrenia?

Answer 2

• meta representation
• central control

Question 3

Who discovered the 2 types of dysfunctional processing that causes Schizophrenia?

Answer 3

Frith et al

Question 4

What is metarepresentation?

Answer 4

• the ability to reflect on thoughts and behaviours
• disruption in metarepresentation reduces the ability to recognise their own actions and thoughts from others
• this may cause hallusinations of voices as it’s a confusion between the thoughts of their own and others

Question 5

What is central control?

Answer 5

• the ability to suppress automatic responses while focusing on delibrate actions
• this explains disordered speech and thoughts in Schizophrenics because they are unable to suppress automatic thoughts and speech triggered by thoughts