Cognitive Explanations

Question 1

Three aspects of cognitive explanation to cover, what are they?

Answer 1

• Dysfunctional thought processing
• Metarepresentation
• Central control dysfunction

Question 2

Metatepresentation is where

Answer 2

A person struggles to identify that their own action are their own, believing in alien control.

Question 3

The 2 key researchers in the cognitive explanation are….

Answer 3

. Frith
. Beck and Rector

Question 4

The cognitive theory believes that schizophrenia is due to _____________ ____________ ___________ caused by b_____ __________

Answer 4

Dysfunctional thought processes/faulty thinking which are caused by the brain abnormalities.

Question 5

Frith found that our ability to _________ and overule our _________ responses is what keeps our actions __________

Answer 5

. Suppress
. Automatic
. Deliberate

Question 6

Frith concluded what they did from a ….

Answer 6

PET scan, finding schizophrenics have lower blood flows to the prefrontal cortex. (This is linked to biological explanations)

Question 7

There was a _______ test conducted by Stirling

Answer 7

Stoop

Question 8

30 patients and a control group were in …..

Answer 8

Stirling’s stoop test.

Question 9

The stoop test experiment done by Stirling shows that….

Answer 9

Schizophrenics may have dysfunctional thought processes than “normal” people given that it took great difficulty to complete the test.

Question 10

Beck and Rector incorporate

Answer 10

Neurobiology as well, siting them as the origin of dysfunctional thought processes.

Question 11

The cognitive explanation according to Beck and Rector believes that the onset of dysfunctional thought processes is due to ________ but the __________ ___________ make people vulnerable.

Answer 11

. Stress
. Brain abnormalities

Question 12

The cognitive explanation believes __________ symptoms to be caused by a lack of filters, so the sufferer experiences ___________ ___________.

Answer 12

. Positive
. Information overload

Question 13

Negative symptoms in the cognitive explanation are seen as…..

Answer 13

A means of coping with information overload and the positive symptoms that arise from that.

Question 14

An inherent problem with the cognitive explanation theory is that it can’t explain….

Answer 14

Schizophrenics that have exclusively negative symptoms

Question 15

The “brain abnormalities” of the cognitive approach are.

Answer 15

. Dopamine excess in the mesolimbic system
. Enlarged ventricles
. Lower than expected blood flow to the prefrontal vortex - Frith

Question 16

A positive of the cognitive theory is that a product of it is ______

Answer 16

CBT

Question 17

Frith also supports meta cognition, how?

Answer 17

Showed that blood flow changed in the brain when asked to engage in cognitive tasks.