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1
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What are the 2 psychological explanations of schizophrenia?

A

Family dysfunction and cognitive explanations

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What is family dysfunction?

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

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Who proposed the double bind theory?

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Bateson

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What is the double bind theory?

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The theory that children who frequently receive contradictory messages from their parents are more likely to develop schizophrenia

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Give one example of the double bind theory.

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A mother tells her son she loves him, but shouts it and looks away in disgust

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How do double bind statements lead to schizophrenia?

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They can lead to an internally incoherent construction of reality, and may manifest as schizophrenic symptoms

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What is expressed emotion?

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A hostile family communication style between family members

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Are high EE family members talkers or listeners?

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They talk more and listen less

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How much more likely are schizophrenics with high EE families to relapse?

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4x

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What can be said about the thought processing of schizophrenics?

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It is dysfunctional

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What does dysfunctional thought processing lead to?

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Positive symptoms

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Which two biases do schizophrenics most commonly experience?

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Egocentric bias + Jumping to conclusions bias

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What is egocentric bias?

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When an individual incorrectly percieves themself as the central component in events

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What is jumping to conclusions bias?

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When an individual jumps to conclusions based on inadequate information

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What is the cognitive explanation of delusions?

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The patients interpretations of their experiences are controlled by inadeqaute information processing

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What is the cognitive explanation of hallucinations?

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The individual focuses excessive attention on auditory stimuli

17
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How does hypervigilance lead to hallucinations?

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They have a higher expectancy for the occurence of a voice than ‘normal’ individuals

18
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What do hallucination prone individuals find it difficult to distinguish between?

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Imagery and sensory-based perception

19
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What are the 2 AO3 points of family dysfunction explanations of schizophrenia?

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1) Individual differences to EE
2) Support for double bind

20
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What percentage of schizophrenic patients had no physiological responses to stressful comments from their relatives?

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25%

21
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What suggests there are individual differences in the effect of EE?

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Not all schizophrenics who live in high EE families relapse, and not all non-schizophrenics who live in low EE families avoid relapse

22
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What did one psychologist find schizophrenics had a higher recall of than non-schizophrenics?

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Double bind statements

23
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Why is double bind theory valuable?

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It led to the development of family therapy

24
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What are the 2 AO3 points of cognitive explanations of schizophrenia?

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1) Support from the success of cognitive therapies
2) Support for the cognitive models

25
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What supports the belief that the symptoms of schizophrenia are caused by dysfunctional thought processing?

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The success of cognitive-based therapies

26
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Which review demonstrated the effectiveness of CBTp?

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The NICE review

27
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What did the NICE review into the effectiveness of CBTp find?

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That when paired with antipsychotics, CBTp was highly effective at reducing symptom severity + improving levels of social functioning

28
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What were delusional schizophrenics found to have?

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Various biases in their information processing

29
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What do schizophrenics who suffer from hallucinations found to have?

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Impaired self monitoring + tended to experience their own thoughts as voices

Psychology: Schizophrenia (9 decks)

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