Cognitive explanations

Question 1

AO1: generic

What do cognitive explanations focus on?

Answer 1

A cognitive explanation for any phenomenon focuses on the role of mental processes.

Question 2

AO1: generic

Schizophrenia is associated with several abnormal cognitive processes and cognitive explanations focus on these as the cause of schizophrenia

There are three cognitive explanations for schizophrenia - what are they?

Answer 2

**Cognitive deficits **are problems with attention, communication, and information processing that occur in individuals with certain conditions such as schizophrenia.

Cognitive biases are inherent and systematic patterns of thinking that can lead to distortion or irrationality in decision-making and judgment.

Dysfunctional thought processing, refers to impaired cognitive functioning which includes metarepresentation and central control