Psychological Explanation

Question 1

What is the double blind theory?

Answer 1

Children who receive contradictory messages from their partners are more likely to develop SZ/ different communication levels on their relationship

Question 2

How can the double blind theory- communication lead to SZ?

Answer 2

Interactions prevent the develo,met of an internally coherent construction of reality which manifests to SZ symptoms

Question 3

What is expressed emotion?

Answer 3

A negative emotional climate with a high degree of expressed emotions/ talk about patient in hostile manner/ over involvement/ this climate Creates stress which could trigger a relapse

Question 4

What is family dysfunction?

Answer 4

The presence of problems within a family that contribute to relapse rates in the recovery of schizophrenics

Question 5

How can communication affect the development of schizophrenia? (Doubles blind theory)

Answer 5

The conflicting messages gives the child two conflicting messages about their relationship with the parent on two different communication levels, these interactions prevent the development of an internally coherent constriction of reality which can manifest into SZ symptoms

Question 6

How can communication affect the development of schizophrenia? (EE)

Answer 6

This negative emotional climate can lead to stress which can then lead to a relapse, (they are four times more likely to relapse- Linszen), they are unable to communicate to their family as they believe they will react negatively

Question 7

What study supports family relationships affecting schizorenia?

Answer 7

Tienari et al

Question 8

What did Tienari et al find?

Answer 8

Only in situations where adopted family was seen as disturbed the SZ developed/ even though they were more likely to develop SZ because they had a parent with it it did not develop unless in negative adopters family

Question 9

What study supports the double blind theory?

Answer 9

Berger et al

Question 10

What did Berger et al find?

Answer 10

Those with SZ reported a high recall of double standards compared to those without SZ

Question 11

What is a general weakness of family dysfunction?

Answer 11

Individual differences/ not all patients who live in low EE homes avoid release, there are individual differences in response to stress

Question 12

Why might the biological explanation be better?

Answer 12

More definite and objective evidence,

Question 13

What did Liam et al find?

Answer 13

No difference in parental communication with ones with and SZ and those without SZ

Question 14

What is dysfunctional thought processing?

Answer 14

Cognitive habits or beliefs that cause the individual to evaluste into inappropriately/ process info differently

Question 15

What is a delusion?

Answer 15

Beliefs that have no basis in reality

Question 16

What is the explanation of delusions?

Answer 16

Patients interpretations of the events is untrue and the processing is inadequate, have an egocentric basis, an event revolves around them e.g paranoia/ patients have an impaired insight/ cognitive distortion

Question 17

What is a hallucination?

Answer 17

An unusual sensory experience with no basis in reality

Question 18

What is the cognitive explanation of hallucinations?

Answer 18

They find it hard to distinguish between imagery and sensory perception/ inner representation can override the actual sensory stimulus, they are more likely to misattritube the source of self generalise auditory experience to an external one