Schizophrenia: Psychological Explanations - Cognitive Explanation Flashcards
When answering questions on psychological explanations you need to follow this structure:
__________/Explain/Feeling/Symptom
Name
When answering questions on psychological explanations you need to follow this structure:
Name/____________/Feeling/Symptom
Explain
When answering questions on psychological explanations you need to follow this structure:
Name/Explain/__________/Symptom
Feeling
When answering questions on psychological explanations you need to follow this structure:
Name/Explain/Feeling/__________
Symptom
What is the main focus of the cognitive explanations of schizophrenia
It focuses on the role of internal mental processes.
Schizophrenia is characterised by disruption to what?
normal thought processing
Schizophrenia is characterised by disruption to normal thought processing. Frith et al (1992) identified two kinds of dysfunctional thought processing that could trigger some symptoms.
Who identified two kinds of dysfunctional thought processing that could trigger schizophrenic ymptoms.
Frith et al (1992)
What did Frith et al (1992) say the two kinds of dysfunctional thought processing could do?
Trigger schizophrenic symptoms.
Frith et al (1992) identified two kinds of dysfunctional thought processing that could trigger some symptoms. What are they?
Meta-representation and central control.
Meta-representation and _________ control are two kinds of dysfunctional thought processing as identified by Frith et al (1992) that could Trigger schizophrenic symptoms.
central
__________-representation and central control are two kinds of dysfunctional thought processing as identified by Frith et al (1992) that could trigger schizophrenic symptoms.
Meta
Metarepresentation is the _______ ability to reflect on ________ and behaviour.
cognitive
thoughts
What does metarepresentation allow us to do?
It allows us to understand our actions and the actions of others.
Which type of thought processing allows us to understand our actions and the actions of others?
metarepresentation
Metarepresentation is the cognitive ability to reflect on what?
thoughts and behaviour
What can dysfunction in metarepresentation do?
Disrupts our ability to recognise our own actions and thoughts as being carried out by ourselves or others.
Dysfunction in metarepresentation disrupts our ability to recognise our own actions and thoughts as being carried out by ourselves or…
others.
Dysfunction in metarepresentation could explain which positive symptoms of auditory hallucinations
Auditory hallucinations
What does a person with dysfunction in metarepresentation not able to do?
An individual may not understand that the voice in their head is their own voice and not somebody else’s.
Central control is the cognitive ability to ___________ automatic responses whilst performing a __________ action instead.
suppress
deliberate
What 2 things are you able to do if you have a functional central control l?
- you can suppress (withhold) automatic responses
- you can perform a deliberate action.
Dysfunction in central control could explain _________ poverty and ________ disorder.
Speech
thought
How does dysfunction in central control explain speech poverty and thought disorder?
individuals are not able to suppress automatic thoughts and speech.
What is disrupted spoken sentences, known as?
derailment
What is derailment?
This is where the individual’s speech is disrupted as the spoken words trigger other associations and the person cannot suppress the action.
Derailment is where the individual’s speech is disrupted as the spoken words trigger other _________ and the person cannot suppress the action.
associations
suppress
AO3: RTS dysfunctional thought processing (central control) was conducted by Stirling et al (2006).
Briefly describe the procedure.
Thus, supporting Frith’s theory of central control dysfunction as an explanation of schizophrenia.
They compared 30 patients with schizophrenia with 18 non-patient controls on a range of cognitive tasks such as the Stroop Test. Participants had to accurately name the ink colour of the colour word printed.
AO3: RTS dysfunctional thought processing (central control) was conducted by Stirling et al (2006).
Briefly describe the findings of the sudy
1; Schizophrenia patients took over twice as long to complete the task as the control group,
AO3: Stirling et al (2006) found that individuals with schizophrenia took twice as long to complete the cognitive tasks as the control group, Why?
Because individuals with schizophrenia could not suppress their automatic response of saying the word rather than the colour.
AO3: Practical application
What is the theory used to explain the development of schizophrenia?
that schizophrenia is caused by disruptive thoughts
AO3: Practical application
With the knowledge that schizophrenia is caused by disruptive thoughts led to what real-world application?
It led to the treatment of cognitive behavioural therapy.
Why s cognitive behavioural therapy effective in treating schizophrenia
It can help reduce delusions.
Central control is the cognitive ability to ___________ automatic responses whilst performing a deliberate action instead.
suppress
