ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
SCHIZOPHRENIA
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Sz patients have a cognitive dysfunction which means they cannot recognize their internal thoughts as their own.
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Sz patients’ existing schemas do not activate which causes sensory overload.
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Sz patients have trouble suppressing automatic thoughts and actions.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cognitive explanations suggest that many symptoms of schizophrenia are caused by simple underlying problems with memory, perception and attention. Frith’s attention deficit theory suggests people with schizophrenia get overloaded by information because they can’t filter everything that’s happening around them.
Detailed explanation-2: -Metarepresentation: the ability to reflect on, and have insight into, our own intentions and the actions of others. Dysfunction in this area could mean that the individual is unable to recognise that their own thoughts are actually theirs, so leading to hallucinations (voices) and delusions (thought insertion).
Detailed explanation-3: -Cognitive models of schizophrenia posit that individuals’ view of the self is influenced by a combination of genetic vulnerability, early childhood experience and environmental stressors later in the life, and that these factors determine how internal and external experiences are interpreted.
Detailed explanation-4: -Frith’s (1992) cognitive model of schizophrenia as a disruption of basic self-monitoring processes can be understood to be a possible explanation of how self-ascriptions of thoughts and actions may be subject to errors of identification in regard to agency.