Cognitive Explanations of Schizophrenia 0.0 / 5 ? PsychologySchizophreniaA2/A-levelAQA Created by: jessssssssssssCreated on: 30-11-20 15:29 cognitive explanation an explanation which focuses on the role of mental processes 1 of 10 the psychologist that identified two kinds of dysfunctional thought processing Christopher Frith et al (1992) 2 of 10 metarepresentation the ability to reflect on our thoughts and behaviour 3 of 10 dysfunction in metarepresentation disrupts ability to recognise our own actions and thoughts, creating hallucinations and delusions 4 of 10 central control the ability to suppress automatic responses whilst performing deliberate actions 5 of 10 dysfunction in central control inability to suppress automatic thoughts and speech triggered by other thoughts, disorganised speech and thought disorder 6 of 10 study which produced evidence for dysfunctional information processing Stirling et al (2006) 7 of 10 the Stroop Test a cognitive task where participants have to name ink colours of colour words, suppressing the impulse to read the words 8 of 10 results of study patients took twice as long to name ink colour as control group 9 of 10 weakness of cognitive explanations a correlation can be shown, but a causality has not been proven 10 of 10
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