schizophrenia -cognitive explanations

Question 1

what is the cognitive explanation of SZ based on?

Answer 1

.role of mental processes

Question 2

what is schizophrenia associated with?

Answer 2

.several types of abnormal information processing

Question 3

who came up with the dysfunctions of thought?

Answer 3

.beck and rector (2008)

Question 4

how many dysfunctions of thought is there?

Answer 4

.3

Question 5

what are the 3 dysfunctions of thought?

Answer 5

.metrepresentation
.central control
.egocentric bias

Question 6

who came up with metarepresentations as a dysfunction of thought?

Answer 6

.frith et al (1992)

Question 7

what is meant by metarepresentations?

Answer 7

.it is the ability to reflect on thoughts and behaviours
.schizophrenics sometimes fail to recognise their own thoughts and actions as being carried out by themselves

Question 8

who came up with central control?

Answer 8

.frith et al (1992)

Question 9

what is meant by central control?

Answer 9

.ability to suppress automatic responses while we perform deliberate actions instead
.schizophrenics have a dysfunctional central of control meaning they have disorganised speech because each word the say triggers an association

Question 10

what is meant by egocentric bias?

Answer 10

.schizophrenic patients see themselves as the centre of the universe, everything revolves around them

Question 11

what is a strength to the cognitive explanation of SZ?

Answer 11

.evidence supporting the idea that information is processed differently in the minds of schizophrenics -shirling et al (2006) compared 20 SZ patients with 18 controls in a stroop test and found SZ patients performed poorly -took over twice as long as controls

Question 12

what are the negatives to the cognitive explanation of SZ?

Answer 12

.correlation doesn’t mean causation -relationships don’t prove causation -reduces validity
.reductionist -ignores the role of genetics in SZ, where ripke et al has proved there are 108 genes associated with SZ