Aeteologies of schizophrenia 0.0 / 5 ? PsychologySchizophreniaA2/A-levelWJEC Created by: francesca_321Created on: 13-06-16 20:02 What is the physiological explanation of depression? Brain chemistry and structure of the brain 1 of 30 What do schizophrenics have? High level of dopamine due to high number of D2 receptors 2 of 30 What do these receptors cause? Increase dopamine levels to increase messages from neurons that transmit dopamine fire too easily 3 of 30 What does frequent firing lead to? psychotic delusions and hallucinations 4 of 30 What does research into cannibis allow? binds to receptors and stimulates dopamine causing psychotic symptoms 5 of 30 What would happen if no one smoked cannabis, 13% less people would develop the condition 6 of 30 What is a second physiological explanation of S? disorder is inherited through genes 7 of 30 What genes? DISC 1 and G72 8 of 30 What does S do? Runs in families and is more common in close relatives of a S than it is in families with no S 9 of 30 What is the concordance rate of S? 1% 10 of 30 What is it higher in? Twins 11 of 30 If S was entirely genetic what would the concordance rate be? 100% in mz 12 of 30 What is it for MZ and DZ 40-50% and 17% 13 of 30 What do studies show? adopted children are more likely to develop dD if their biological mothers have had A compared to a control group of adoptees 14 of 30 What is one strength of physiological explanation? Kety 15 of 30 What did he select? 66 adoptees, 33 had depression 33 did not 16 of 30 14% of biological relatives had S also had S less than 3% of their adopted relatives had S 17 of 30 What does the pscyhological explanation reject? nature 18 of 30 What approach? cognitive approach 19 of 30 What does this explain? faulty processing 20 of 30 What about when one person hears voices? turn for confirmation 21 of 30 what about if they dont confirm it? the person may start to believe others are hiding the truth, so they start to become delusional and hallucinated 22 of 30 What do people with S do? disorganised thinking such as word salad 23 of 30 What is another reason? product of dysfunctional family? 24 of 30 What did Bateson suggest? Children who later develop S are put in 'double bidns' 25 of 30 What are children given? Given conflicting messgaes by parents 26 of 30 What sort of families do these children come from? hostile and critical 27 of 30 What does this lead to? insecure sense of self 28 of 30 What did Laing suggest? sane response to an insane worlds 29 of 30 What were half of s? sexually abused 30 of 30
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