Psychological explanations

Question 1

Schizophrenogenic mother

Answer 1

• cold rejecting
• lead to tension and secrecy in the family
• leads to paranoid delusions and schizophrenia

Question 2

Double bind theory

Answer 2

• Mixed messages from parents
• Develops incoherent reality which leads to schizophrenia

Question 3

Expressed emotion

Answer 3

• level of emotion expressed to patient by carer
  -can be a serious source of stress for the patient

Question 4

Metarepresentation

Answer 4

• cognitive ability to reflect on thoughts
  -disrupt our ability to recognise and thought which can result in hallucinations

Question 5

Central control

Answer 5

• cognitive ability to supress automatic responses while we perform deliberate actions
• can result in disorganised speech and thought disorder

Question 6

Strengths

Answer 6

Research - Read et al
- 16 studies of childhood abuse and found that 69% of women inpatients had been diagnosed with schiz
-Link between family dysfunction and schz

Research - Stirling
- compared 30 shiz patients with controls on a range of cognitive tasks ( stroop test)
- shciz patients took 2x longer

Question 7

Limitations

Answer 7

Direction of causality
-remains unclear what causes what including whether cog factors are a cause or result of neural correlated and neurotransmitters

Weak evidence
- Based on clinical observations and early evidence
- unsure whether it is valid