Cognitive explanations

• What is disruption to normal thought processing in schizophrenia?

  Dysfunctional thinking
• What is associated with negative symptoms in schizophrenia?

  Reduced thought processing in ventral striatum
• Which brain regions are associated with hallucinations in schizophrenia?

  Temporal and cingulate gyrus
• What does lower than usual information processing suggest in schizophrenia?

  Cognition is likely to be impaired
• Who identified two kinds of dysfunctional thought processes in schizophrenia?

  Christopher Frith et al.
• What is metarepresentation?

  Cognitive ability to reflect on thoughts and behavior
• What does dysfunction in metarepresentation disrupt?

  Ability to recognize own actions and thoughts
• What does metarepresentation dysfunction explain ?

  Hallucinatiosn like hearing voices and delusions like thought incersion
• What issues did Frith et al. identify regarding central control dysfunction?

  Inability to suppress automatic responses while we perform deliberate actions
• What could speech poverty and thought disorder result from?

  Inability to suppress automatic thoughts
• How do people with schizophrenia experience derailment of thoughts?

  Each word triggers associations they can't suppress
• What are the strengths and limitations of the cognitive approach to schizophrenia?

  Strengths:

  • Uses scientific methods for studying mental processes
  • Strong research support and practical applications

  
  

  Limitations:

  • Reductionist, comparing mind to a machine
  • Simplifies schizophrenia, ignoring emotional factors
• Why is the use of scientific methods a strength of the cognitive approach?

  It provides reliable, objective data
• What does the reductionist nature of the cognitive approach overlook?

  The role of emotions and individual differences
• What does Stirling et al. (2006) research support?

  Impaired cognitive processes in schizophrenia
• What are the real-world applications of cognitive approaches?

  Improving understanding of thought disorders
• What do cognitive explanations often simplify schizophrenia to?

  Cognitive processes
• What do cognitive explanations ignore that limits their validity?

  Emotional factors, genetics, and childhood trauma