Normal thinking is reduced - attention skills may be deficient, helps to explain disorganised speech and delusions
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Cognitive Biases
Warped thinking - selective attention, can explain traditional symptoms
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Metarepresentations (Frith et al)
Leads to hallucinations - it is the cognitive ability to reflect on thoughts and behaviour
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Dysfunction of central control (Frith et al)
leads to speech poverty - unable to suppress automatic responses while performing deliberate actions
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A03 Stirling et al
Compared 30 patients with Sz and 18 non-patients on the stroop test. Sz patients took 2x longer on the stroop test, showing dysfunction in central control
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A03 Beck and Rector
suggest a model combining neurobiological, environmental, behavioural and cognitive factors (brain functioning abnormalities -> vulnerability to stressful life events -> dysfunctional beliefs and behaviours )
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A03 Causality
Hard to establish if cognitive factors are a cause or a result. questions validity of theory
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Normal thinking is reduced - attention skills may be deficient, helps to explain disorganised speech and delusions
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