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Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What did Barch et al. (1999) compare in their study?
Performance on a Stroop test of people with and without schizophrenia
Memory recall in people with depression
IQ scores of children and adults
Reaction times in athletes and non-athletes
The findings of Barch et al. (1999) support which psychological idea?
Frith’s ideas of attention deficit
Beck’s theory of depression
Freud’s psychoanalytic theory
Skinner’s behaviorism
Which of the following is a criticism of a reductionist approach as mentioned in the material?
It ignores cultural factors.
It always considers psychological factors.
It focuses only on environmental influences.
It emphasizes free will above all else.
What ethical issue is raised by the reductionist approach in relation to schizophrenia?
It may lead to blaming schizophrenics for their illness.
It always cures schizophrenia.
It ignores the biological basis of schizophrenia.
It promotes cultural diversity.
Which type of symptoms does the cognitive approach struggle to explain in schizophrenia?
Non-cognitive symptoms such as issues with movement
Cognitive symptoms such as memory loss
Emotional symptoms such as sadness
Social symptoms such as isolation
If a psychologist wants to understand the origins of schizophrenia, which type of cause should they investigate according to the material?
Distal causes
Proximal causes
Cognitive causes
Behavioral causes
If 2.5-4% of people experience hearing voices at least once in their life, what question arises regarding the proportion of schizophrenics?
Why aren’t there the same proportion of schizophrenics?
Why do all people hear voices?
Why do only schizophrenics hear voices?
Why do no schizophrenics hear voices?
According to the integrated model of schizophrenia, what combination is suggested to contribute to the development of the disorder?
Genes or early life factors with life events or social stressors.
Only genetic factors.
Only environmental factors.
Diet and exercise habits.
How does the integrated model of schizophrenia explain the creation of a vicious cycle for the individual?
Dopamine release causes cognitive issues, which increase stress, leading to more dopamine release.
Dopamine release stops stress, ending the cycle.
Cognitive issues reduce dopamine, breaking the cycle.
Social stressors eliminate genetic risk, ending the cycle.
Explain how the diathesis stress model applies to the development of schizophrenia according to Howes and Murray (2014).
It suggests that genetic or early life vulnerabilities interact with stressful life events to provoke the onset of schizophrenia.
It claims that only genetics cause schizophrenia.
It states that only environmental factors are responsible.
It argues that schizophrenia is caused by diet and exercise.
