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Schizophrenia - Psychological Explanations Flashcards

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1
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Psychological explanations of SZ?

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Cognitive, Socio-Cultural Factors

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Socio-cultural factors include?

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Double-bind theory, expressed emotion

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Socio-cultural factors emphasise…

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the role of social and family relationships in SZ

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Bateson?

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Double-bind theory

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Double-bind theory?

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Bateson

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Main assumption of cognitive explanation?

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SZ due to underlying physiological or biological abnormalities

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Cognitive explanation of delusions?

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Symptoms appear as they attempt to understand their experiences - if other people fail to confirm reality they become delusional

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Cognitive deficit theories?

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Explain SZ in terms of attentional impairment, as the selective mechanisms that filter and process stimuli are defective in SZ brains so become overwhelmed and unable to interpret

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Researcher on cognitive explanation of SZ?

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Hemsley

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Hemsley?

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Central deficit in SZ due to disconnection between stored knowledge (schemas) and current sensory input - don’t know what to attend to or ignore

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Cognitive explanations of hallucinations?

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Internal events misinterpreted as caused by external stimuli (Hemsley suggests due to abnormalities in the hippocampus)

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Strengths of cognitive explanations of SZ?

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Support
Treatment implications
Holistic

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Weaknesses of cognitive explanations of SZ?

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Explain symptoms not causes

Contradicting research

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Support for cognitive explanations of SZ?

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Robinson and Becker

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Robinson and Becker?

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Neural circuits involving the limbic system are involved in the inability of people with SZ to integrate moment to moment sensory inputs with stored memories and resulting distress leads to increase in dopamine

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Research on cognitive explanation looking at symptoms not causes?

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Park et al

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Park et al?

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Investigated genetic links in cognitive malfunctioning and identified working memory deficits in 1st degree non-SZ relatives

18
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Treatment implications of cognitive explanations of SZ?

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Yellowlees et al

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Yellowlees et al?

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Developed a machine that produces virtual hallucinations to show they aren’t real

20
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Main assumption of the double-bind theory?

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SZ develops due to disturbed patterns of communication in families, where the child receives contradictory messages that invalidate each other

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Example of contradictory messages?

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Affection on verbal level, hostility on non-verbal level

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What does repeated exposure to contradictory messages mean?

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The child learns to perceive their universe in terms of contradictory environmental input and their ability to respond effectively to environmental stimuli diminishes

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Bateson et al?

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Double-bind results in not developing a coherent construction of reality, which manifests itself in SZ symptoms LT

24
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Strengths of the double-bind theory?

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Supporting research

25
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Weaknesses of the double-bind theory?

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Contradicting research
Methodology
More to do with biology

26
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Supporting research for double-bind theory?

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Berger

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Berger?

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SZs reported a higher recall of double-bind statements by their mothers

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Contradicting research for double-bind theory?

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Liem

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Liem?

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No differences in parental communication patterns in SZ and normal families

30
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Contradicting research for cognitive explanation?

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McKenna

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McKenna?

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Schizophrenics aren’t more easily distracted than non-schizophrenics in cognitive tasks

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Methodological flaws in double-bind theory?

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Haller

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Haller?

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Reviewed evidence on double-bind and concluded it was extremely difficult to evaluate its worth as family interactions are normally only studied retrospectively

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Research for superiority of biological explanations?

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Gottesman

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Gottesman?

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The greater the degree of genetic relatedness, the greater the risk of SZ

36
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Research on attentional impairment in SZ?

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People with SZ are poor at lab tasks that require them to attend to some stimuli and ignore others

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