Cognitive Explanations of SZ
Not including Studies
- Created by: Emma Kwiecinska
- Created on: 28-02-14 09:56
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- Cognitive Explanations of SZ
- Basic principles
- Cognition - The way that we interpret an event...
- Emotions - Affects how we feel which...
- Behaviour - Changes how we behave in that situation/to that person
- Emotions - Affects how we feel which...
- Cognition - The way that we interpret an event...
- Delusions
- These are explained using "attribution theory"...
- We make an internal attribution if something good happens to us
- This is known as a self serving bias! We explain events in a way that benefits us.
- And an external attribution when something bad happens.
- Paranoid Delusions
- When something bad happens, an external personal attribution is made, also known as a personalising bias.
- e.g. "Sorry Im late but the police deliberately set up the road blocks to make me late"
- There are many reasons as to why paranoid SZ patients develop these thinking styles...
- Bhugra et al (1999) - It is a thinking style which is the result of victimization + discrimination
- Blackwood et al (2000) - It is a form of cognitive processing, resulting from over activity in certain brain areas (left frontal cortex)
- Frith (1994) but developed by Bentall (2003) - Paranoid patients suffer from an impaired Theory of Mind (TOM)
- A TOM is the ability to understand that other people view the world differently to you/from someone elses POV
- An underdeveloped TOM would lead to a faulty thinking style; you would assume that everything other people do or say is about you...leading to paranoia
- A TOM is the ability to understand that other people view the world differently to you/from someone elses POV
- When something bad happens, an external personal attribution is made, also known as a personalising bias.
- Paranoid Delusions
- And an external attribution when something bad happens.
- This is known as a self serving bias! We explain events in a way that benefits us.
- And an external attribution when something bad happens.
- Paranoid Delusions
- When something bad happens, an external personal attribution is made, also known as a personalising bias.
- e.g. "Sorry Im late but the police deliberately set up the road blocks to make me late"
- There are many reasons as to why paranoid SZ patients develop these thinking styles...
- Bhugra et al (1999) - It is a thinking style which is the result of victimization + discrimination
- Blackwood et al (2000) - It is a form of cognitive processing, resulting from over activity in certain brain areas (left frontal cortex)
- Frith (1994) but developed by Bentall (2003) - Paranoid patients suffer from an impaired Theory of Mind (TOM)
- A TOM is the ability to understand that other people view the world differently to you/from someone elses POV
- An underdeveloped TOM would lead to a faulty thinking style; you would assume that everything other people do or say is about you...leading to paranoia
- A TOM is the ability to understand that other people view the world differently to you/from someone elses POV
- When something bad happens, an external personal attribution is made, also known as a personalising bias.
- Paranoid Delusions
- We make an internal attribution if something good happens to us
- These are explained using "attribution theory"...
- General issues
- It may only be studying the symptoms of SZ rather than the causes.
- It isn't clear as to why some people develop these thinking styles but others don't! More research is needed in this area.
- However it is less reductionist than other theories, as it acknowledges how biology / enviro. / cognition can work together in causing SZ
- A more holistic approach to explaining SZ is the diathesis stress model...
- It includes all of the different approaches!
- Genetics and intrauterine factors...
- Create a predisposition to SZ...
- And family communication problems then create a...
- Vulnerability to SZ...
- Stressful life events, the environment (drug use)...
- Could then trigger a SZ episode
- Medication, labelling, social stigma, social isolation then creates...
- Stressful life events, the environment (drug use)...
- Could then trigger a SZ episode
- Medication, labelling, social stigma, social isolation then creates...
- Medication, labelling, social stigma, social isolation then creates...
- Could then trigger a SZ episode
- Stressful life events, the environment (drug use)...
- Medication, labelling, social stigma, social isolation then creates...
- Could then trigger a SZ episode
- Stressful life events, the environment (drug use)...
- Vulnerability to SZ...
- And family communication problems then create a...
- Create a predisposition to SZ...
- Genetics and intrauterine factors...
- It includes all of the different approaches!
- Basic principles
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