6. What are the flaws of Cognitive explanations for schizophrenia?
Yellowlees study
There is no research to support the cognitive approach
Direction of causality is unclear and cognitive factors are commonly believed to be the result of biological factors
It is factually known that the causes for schizophrenia are biological
7. WHat is the cognitive approach to schizophrenia?
Bad brain wiring
Faulty processing in brain leads to cognitive errors.
Schizophrenics cognition is limited to an immature, infantile state
Schizophrenics brain cogs do not work together in harmony
8. In the cognitive approach, what is the catatonic state caused by?
An inability to get out of bed in the morning
An inability to deal with upsetting thought processes
An inability to filter out unnecessary sensory information
An inability to cope with deep psychological grief
9. What is the behavioural explanation for schizophrenia?
Children retreat into their own world due to excessive punishment - Labelled as odd - Conform to label - Achieve identity - others reinforce - becomes exaggerated, frequent leading to sz
The view that children development schizophrenia because they act in bizarre ways and are avoided by their peer groups, this causes them to be isolated and begin making cognitive errors
Children behave oddly to gain attention, when they are given attention this reinforces the behaviour until they do not know how to stop
When Children behave badly.
10. What is a flaw of the behaviourist approach to schizophrenia?
Can mental illness be learnt? Surely not
It labels children as weird
It is silly
It presumes adults are the cause of children's mentality
11. Who came up with the cognitive approach to schizophrenia?
Scheff
Maher
Freud
Bateson et all
12. Who came up with the behavioural approach?
Scheff
Chef
Freud
Maher
13. What are the four main psychological explanations of Schizophrenia?
Behavioural, Psychodynamic, Cognitive, Social and Family Relationships
Behavioural, Psychological, Cognition, Society influence
Cold mothers, Ex lovers, alien abduction and violent personality
14. What is social causation hypothesis?
Only the poor can have schizophrenia due to their increased stress levels
Being a member of the lowest social class means increased stress levels leaving individuals more vulnerable to sz
Those who are more wealthy can afford schizophrenia treatments
High classes are vulnerable to schizophrenia, due to the stress of keeping up appearances.
15. Who formulated double bind theory?
Maverick
Bateson et al
Freud
Heston et al
16. In the social and family relationships explanation of psychology, what are schizophrenogenic families?
Families where all members have schizophrenia
Families with over emotional mothers, ambivalent messages and competing siblings
Families with high emotional tension, cold mothers, ineffectual fathers
Sibling rivalry, hostile parents, tense atmosphere and stunted emotional growth
17. What is double bind theory?
Schizophrenia is a learned response which occurs when children are constantly placed in no win situations, offered conflicting messages (eg. Hug me, grow up)
Schizophrenia doubly binds a person biologically and psychologically
Where children are asked to choose between their parents
Where children are bound by a feeling of duty to their friends and family
18. What is the diathesis stress model?
Stress leads to biological changes that lead to schizophrenia
That stress causes schizophrenia
That schizophrenia is most likely caused by biological factors but triggered by psychological ones.
That schizophrenia is caused by psychological factors rather than biological
19. Who came up with research that supports the behaviourist approach to schizophrenia?
Ayllon and Azrin - token economy system
Jaeger and Meister - token reward system
Ashtak and Aeorta - Token economy
There is no research to support the approach.
20. In the psychodynamic approach, what characters did Freud say schizophrenics show under the dominant Id, while fixed in the oral stage?
Offensive, childlike, dumb, meek and attention seeking.
