Cognitive explanations of schizophrenia Flashcards
What did Park find in 1995? What does this show?
Identified working memory deficits in people with schizophrenia and their first degree non-schizophrenia relatives. The deficit is the cause and not the result of schizophrenia.
What did Bentall find in 1991?
Patients were less able to distinguish between words they had formed with prompts and words already formed, a week later, in comparison to the control.
What did Frith and Done find in 1986?
Schizophrenics were much less able to list words than controls.
What else did Bentall find in 1991 which undermines the original finding?
Hallucinatory schizophrenics did worse than non-hallucinatory schizophrenics in recalling words formed by them or others.
What is a problem with both Bentall and Frith and Done’s studies?
They were completed on patients with lifelong anti-psychotic use.
Identified working memory deficits in people with schizophrenia and their first degree non-schizophrenia relatives. The deficit is the cause and not the result of schizophrenia.
Park, 1995.
Patients were less able to distinguish between words they had formed with prompts and words already formed, a week later, in comparison to the control.
Bentall, 1991.
Hallucinatory schizophrenics did worse than non-hallucinatory schizophrenics in recalling words formed by them or others.
Bentall, 1991.
Schizophrenics were much less able to list words than controls.
Frith and Done.
