2022-2024 Year 13 A-Level Psychology - Schizophrenia: Psychological Explanations - Cognitive Explanation

Question: When answering questions on psychological explanations you need to follow this structure: __________/Explain/Feeling/Symptom

Question: When answering questions on psychological explanations you need to follow this structure: Name/____________/Feeling/Symptom

Question: When answering questions on psychological explanations you need to follow this structure: Name/Explain/__________/Symptom

Question: When answering questions on psychological explanations you need to follow this structure: Name/Explain/Feeling/__________

Question: What is the main focus of the cognitive explanations of schizophrenia

Question: Schizophrenia is characterised by disruption to what?

Question: 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.

Question: Who identified two kinds of dysfunctional thought processing that could trigger schizophrenic ymptoms.

Question: What did Frith et al (1992) say the two kinds of dysfunctional thought processing could do?

Question: Frith et al (1992) identified two kinds of dysfunctional thought processing that could trigger some symptoms. What are they?

Question: Meta-representation and _________ control are two kinds of dysfunctional thought processing as identified by Frith et al (1992) that could Trigger schizophrenic symptoms.

Question: __________-representation and central control are two kinds of dysfunctional thought processing as identified by Frith et al (1992) that could trigger schizophrenic symptoms.

Question: Metarepresentation is the _______ ability to reflect on ________ and behaviour.

Question: What does metarepresentation allow us to do?

Question: Which type of thought processing allows us to understand our actions and the actions of others?

Question: Metarepresentation is the cognitive ability to reflect on what?

Question: What can dysfunction in metarepresentation do?

Question: Dysfunction in metarepresentation disrupts our ability to recognise our own actions and thoughts as being carried out by ourselves or…

Question: Dysfunction in metarepresentation could explain which positive symptoms of auditory hallucinations

Question: What does a person with dysfunction in metarepresentation not able to do?

Question: Central control is the cognitive ability to ___________ automatic responses whilst performing a __________ action instead.

Question: What 2 things are you able to do if you have a functional central control l?

Question: Dysfunction in central control could explain _________ poverty and ________ disorder.

Question: How does dysfunction in central control explain speech poverty and thought disorder?

Question: What is disrupted spoken sentences, known as?

Question: What is derailment?

Question: Derailment is where the individual’s speech is disrupted as the spoken words trigger other _ and the person cannot suppress the action.

Question: 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.

Question: AO3: RTS dysfunctional thought processing (central control) was conducted by Stirling et al (2006). Briefly describe the findings of the sudy

Question: AO3: Stirling et al (2006) found that individuals with schizophrenia took twice as long to complete the cognitive tasks as the control group, Why?

Question: AO3: Practical application What is the theory used to explain the development of schizophrenia?

Question: AO3: Practical application With the knowledge that schizophrenia is caused by disruptive thoughts led to what real-world application?

Question: Why's cognitive behavioural therapy effective in treating schizophrenia

Question: Central control is the cognitive ability to ___ automatic responses whilst performing a deliberate action instead.