Psychological Explanations
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- Created on: 07-02-14 14:04
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- Psychological Explanations
- Cognitive Explanations
- Metarepresentation
- Ability to reflect on thoughts/behavior/self-awareness - without it cannot distinguish speech from thoughts - hallucinations
- Bentall et al: SZ group could not distinguish between words they heard and words they thought of themselves
- Ability to reflect on thoughts/behavior/self-awareness - without it cannot distinguish speech from thoughts - hallucinations
- Stimulus Driven Behaviour
- In response to an external stimulus leads to disorganised thinking
- Willed Behaviour
- Based on intentions and wishes that you choose - without it leads to avoliation
- Symptoms of SZ can be explained by difficulty in processing info
- Virtual reality used - lacks ecological validity
- Might not be issue with willed behaviour but with lack of understanding of virtual world, time, memory problems
- Biological factors not considered
- Metarepresentation
- Expressed Emotion
- Negative emotional climate
- Criticism, hostility and over-involvment
- High EE levels linked to relapse
- Not a causal factor but could be a contributing one to relapse
- High EE levels linked to relapse
- Criticism, hostility and over-involvment
- Linzen et al - high EE influence relapse. - Patients returning to high EE 4x likely to relapse
- Cultural Differences - Gelfand - Zimbabwe - views hallucination as a good thing - better recovery rates
- Does not explain cause of SZ
- Ignores Biological factors - Joseph
- Methodology - difficult to assess EE
- Negative emotional climate
- Cognitive Explanations
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