Cognitive

• According to Firth, what are the two types of dysfunctional thought processing?

  1. Metarepresentation dysfunction
  2. Central control dysfunction
• What is associated with negative symptoms?

  Reduced thought processing
• What is associated with hallucinations?

  Reduced processing of information in temporal and cingulate gyri
• Who identified two types of dysfunctional thought processing?

  Firth
• What is misrepresentation dysfunction?

  Interrupted ability to recognise thoughts and behaviour
• What does misrepresentation dysfunction explain?

  Hallucinations and delusions
• What does central control dysfunction explain?

  Speech poverty and thought disorder
• What is central control dysfunction?

  Inability to supress automatic responses and deliberate actions