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What are two psychological explanations to schizophrenia? |
Cognitive approach and socio-cultural explanation. |
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What does Frith say about the cognitive approach? |
Scz brains have faulty mechanisms that filter incoming stimuli. Too much stimuli = can't focus on or interpret information correctly. |
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The cognitive approach doesn't explain the cause of scz, just describes some symptoms in cognitive terms. What has this led to? |
Information helps with treatment: CBT and Milieu Therapy are both effective at treating symptoms. If the treatment is effective it suggests a valid theory. |
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What is the socio-cultural explanation to scz? |
This explanations focuses on social and cultural factors like family and social environment |
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What does Scheff's Labelling Theory suggest? |
- social groups construct rules for members to follow - scz symptoms (delusions etc.) = deviant behavior - If displaying 'bizarre behavior' may be labelled as scz - label acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy that promotes development of other symptoms (Comer) |
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What did Scheff find when he evaluated 18 studies relating to labelling theory? |
13 studies were consistent with theory // 5 were not. |
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What was one study that supported labelling theory? |
Rosenhan - 'label' of scz was applied and this 'diagnosis' influenced the behavior of staff towards the patient |
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Life events and schizophrenia. |
Occurrence of stressful life evnts is linked with schizophrenic episodes. |
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What did Brown and Birley find when researching the impact of life events? |
50% of people experienced a stressful life events in the 3 weeks prior to a scz episode. |
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What dose contrasting research from Van Os et al say about life events? |
No link between life events and onset of scz. Patients who experiences a MLE = lower likelihood of relapse. Suggests that link is only correlational. |
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What does the double-bind theory by Bateson et al suggest about scz? |
Children who receive contradicting messages from parents = more likely to develop scz. It prevent development of an internally construction of reality -- in the long run - manifests itself as scz symptoms. |
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What did Berger find about the recall of double-bind statements? |
scz reported a higher recall of double-bind statements than non scz. (memory may be affected by scz) |
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What did Liem find in regards to communication of scz patients? |
No difference in parental communication in families with scz child compared with no scz child. |
