The Cognitive Explanation

Question 1

Who identified the two kinds of dysfunctional thought processing?

Answer 1

Frith et al

Question 2

What does it suggest schizophrenia is due to?

Answer 2

Disruption in normal thought processing.

Question 3

What are the two explanations?

Answer 3

Metarepresentation and Central Control

Question 4

Explain Metarepresentation.

Answer 4

-lack the ability to recall actions and thoughts if there due to external thoughts.
-Auditory Hallucinations, unaware if voices are external or not
-causing distress

Question 5

Explain Central Control.

Answer 5

-lacking the ability to suppress automatic thoughts and speech
-thoughts and speech are triggered by other thoughts causing disorganized thoughts and disordered speech
-Derailment, disruption in spoken sentences whenever speaking it triggers associations

Question 6

What are the evaluations?

Answer 6

Stirling et al
Alternate explanation
practical application

Question 7

Explain the research to support by Stirling et al.

Answer 7

-Compares 30 schizophrenic patients with 18 non schizophrenics
-on a range of cognitive tasks such as the Stroop test
-participants had to name the ink color of the color of the word
-found that those with schizophrenia took twice as long
-due to the fact that there central control couldn’t suppress the automatic thought of saying the word
-increasing IV

Question 8

Explain the Alternate explanation?

Answer 8

-due to hyperdopaminergia
-high levels of dopamine in the central areas of the brain are associated with auditory hallucinations
-rather than dysfunction in thoughts
-not the sole explanation

Question 9

Explain the evaluation of Practical explanation.

Answer 9

-principle of the theory schz due to delusional thoughts has led to CBT
-effective, identify and challenge the origin of there audity hallucinations
-helps to reduce there positive symptoms of schz
-important part of applied psychology.