Psychological explanations of schizophrenia: Cognitive

1. HM had his ___________ removed, however did not suffer from schizophrenia after this. (11)
4. Zimbardo came up with the ________ path to madness where in people turn to friends/relaives who deny the reality of their sensations, leading to sufferers concluding that others are trying to hide the truth from them. (8)
8. Meyer-Lyndenberg et al found a ____ between excess levels of dopamine in the prefrontal cortex and dysfunctions of the working memory, demonstrating cognitive dysfunction found in SZ. (4)
9. Cognitive ___________ explains that there is a biological defect in the ability to filter informatio, leading to too much stimuli being let in which makes them unabe to focus so they see the world in a different way (hallucinations and delusions). (11)

2. Cognitive approach mainly explains ________ symptoms, not negative ones. (8)
3. Hemsley found a ____________ relationship between problems in the hippocampus and deactivation of schemas. (12)
5. Hemsley said that non-schizophrenic individuals give meaning to new stimuli using their _______ and proposes that schizophrenics' are not activated (disorganized thinking). (7)
6. Many _____ damaged patients fail to develop schizophrenic symptoms. (5)
7. Firth argued that schizophrenic's _________ filter is broken so unimportant information also gets into the conscious awareness which has a limited capacity so it cannot deal with all the information. (9)

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