Psychological explanations for schizophrenia

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Who did the double bind theory and what did they suggest?
Bateson et al, suggested that children who receive conflicting messages are more likely to develop schizophrenia, these messages invalidate each other
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Who did the EE study and what did they find?
Kuipers et al who found that high EE relatives talk more and listen less. High EE are more likely to influence relapse rates
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What did Linszen find out about EE?
Patients returning to an EE family are 4 times more likely to relapse. Schizophrenics have a lower tolerance for intense stimuli
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What did Noll find?
Supportive families may help the individual to reduce dependence on medication therefore reduce chances of a relapse
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What has research found about cognitive explanations?
Evidence of dsyfunctional thought processing which are cognitive habits and beliefs that cause them to evaluate information inappropriately
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What are the cognitive explanations of delusions?
Patients interpretations of experiences are controlled by inadequate information processing. They see themselves as the centre of everything (egocentric bias) and so jumps to conclusions about external events
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What are the cognitive explanations of hallucinations?
They focus excessive attention on auditory stimuli (hypervigilence) and have a higher expectance of hearing voices
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What is a disadvantage of family dysfunction?
Tienari et al who found that adopted children who had schizophrenic parents were more likely to become ill. This only happened when the adoptive family was rated as disturbed
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What is an advantage of family dysfunction?
Berger found that schizophrenics reported a higher recall of double bind statements by their mothers. Liem measured patterns of parental communication in families with a schizophrenic child and found no difference
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What is an advantage of cognitive explanations?
Sarin and Wallin found evidence for positive symptoms having their origins in faulty cognition. Schizophrenics with hallucinations were found to have impaired self monitoring
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What is a disadvantage of cognitive explanations?
Howes and Murray argue that early vulnerability factors together with significant stressors sensitises the dopamine system (increase dopamine)
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