Psychological Factors: Cognitive Explanations

Question 1

what do cognitive psychologists argue?

Answer 1

that schizophrenia is caused by dysfunctional through processing

Question 2

what does dysfunctional though processing lead to?

Answer 2

• delusions
• thought interference
• language impairment
• memory problems

Question 3

studies for cognitive explanations

Answer 3

Neufeld (1978)

Meyer-Lindenberg et al (2002)

Question 4

what did Neufeld (1978) do?

Answer 4

compared the cognitive processes of people with schizophrenia with a control group

Question 5

what did Neufeld (1978) find?

Answer 5

participants with schizophrenia took longer to encode stimuli and showed short term memory problems

Question 6

what are the conclusions of Neufeld (1978) study?

Answer 6

schizophrenics ability to process information was impaired

Question 7

evidence against

Answer 7

biochemical research says cognitive problems are caused by increased dopamine and not faulty information processing

Question 8

faulty information processing could…

Answer 8

be a result of increased dopamine, a symptom, not a cause