Cognitive Explanations Flashcards
Define cognitive explanations of schizophrenia
Focus on mental processes such as thinking, language and attention
Define dysfunctional thought processes
Information processing that is abnormal. Followed by undesirable behaviours.
Who looked into the 2 types of dysfunctional thought processes?
Frith et al
State Frith et al’s dysfunctional thought processes
Metarepresentation and Central control
Define meta representation
The ability to reflect on your own thoughts and behaviours and having an insight into your own intentions, goals and other peoples actions.
What takes place if meta representation is dysfunctional?
A person is unable to interpret and recognise their own actions and thoughts.
Define central control
The ability to suppress responses to things
What happens if somebodies central control is dysfunctional?
They could have disorganised speech or speech poverty where their thoughts and sentences are incoherent.
Who carried out research into dysfunctional thought processes?
Betal et al
Takahashi et al
What did Betal et al research when looking into dysfunctional thought processes?
Found that schizophrenics struggled to identify words that belonged to a certain category. Supports meta representation
What did Takahashi et al research when looking into dysfunctional thought processes?
Compared electrical brain activity in 410 schizophrenics and 247 non-schizophrenics.
Both were exposed to auditory tones however schizophrenics were unable to detect a change in auditory tones.
