6.3: Psychological explanations for schizophrenia

Question 1

Explain what is meant by dysfunctional thought processing in schizophrenia (2 marks)

Answer 1

Dysfunctional thought processing concerns the idea that the development of schizophrenia is related to abnormal ways of thinking.
Schizophrenics are seen as especially poor at monitoring their own thought processes and so cannot detect errors in cognitive processing