SCHIZOPHRENIA - AQA A LEVEL PSYCHOLOGYLATEST 2025 (PAPER 3) WITH QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS RADED A+ GUARANTEED PASS
schizophrenia - (ANSWER)a psychotic disorder
positive symptoms of schizophrenia - (ANSWER)hallucinations
-auditory (hearing)
-visual (seeing)
-olfactory (smelling things)
-tactile (feeling)
delusions
-of grandeur (thinking they are special and different from everyone else, the idea that they are napoleon
or Jesus Christ)
-persecution (thinking they are being tracked or followed by secret agencies)
disordered thinking (thoughts are being interfered with
-broadcast
-insertion
-withdrawals
negative symptoms - (ANSWER)Anhedonia- when tasks that usually excite you no longer do
Avolition- when a person cannot strive towards goal orienated behaviour
Alogia (speech poverty) - when a person is unable to speak fluently and is very disjointed, usually having
no coherent point
Flattening of affect- when a person no longer cares or shows emotions, such as using eye contact, body
language, smiling.
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, SCHIZOPHRENIA - AQA A LEVEL PSYCHOLOGYLATEST 2025 (PAPER 3) WITH QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS RADED A+ GUARANTEED PASS
how do we classify schizophrenia - (ANSWER)using the diagnostics and statistical manual of mental
disorder(DSM)
DSM-5 says that you must have at least one positive symptom and must last at least a month
problems with using the DSM
Reliability - (ANSWER)inter-rater reliability- when two different people get the same result using the
same test, this is measured using the kappa score
a score of 1 means there is a lot of agreement
0 means no agreement
Regier- schizophrenia only had a 0.46 score on the kappa score
Rosenhan and reliability - (ANSWER)wanted to test the reliability of the diagnosis of schizophrenia
He tested if "normal" mentally stable people would be diagnosed as schizophrenic
8 people were asked to act as "schizophrenics" by saying they could hear and see things.
8 people were called pseudo patients
The pseudo patients tried to get admission to various hospitals in the US.
All were admitted and 7/8 were diagnosed as schizophrenic
When in the hospital they all behaved normally and attempted to be released
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, SCHIZOPHRENIA - AQA A LEVEL PSYCHOLOGYLATEST 2025 (PAPER 3) WITH QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS RADED A+ GUARANTEED PASS
It took them 7-50 days to be released
The medical staff had no clue that they weren't mentally ill but the schizophrenics thought they were
there to check up on the hospital.
Rosenhan study critique - (ANSWER)Observational field experiment so it had high ecological validity
But they used an old version of the DSM (DSM-II)
Cultural differences in reliability of diagnosing
schizophrenia
Copeland - (ANSWER)Copeland gave psychiatrists in the U.K. and US a description of a patient.
69% of US diagnosed them as a schizo
2% of UK diagnosed them as a schizo
Luhrmann et al and HEARING VOICES - (ANSWER)Compared the types of voices that were heard from
Ghana India and US
The African and Indian people heard positive voices while the Americans heard negative voices.
So hearing voices may not be an inevitable feature of schizo
Is the diagnosis of schizophrenia valid? - (ANSWER)Gender bias
Co morbidity
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CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS RADED A+ GUARANTEED PASS
schizophrenia - (ANSWER)a psychotic disorder
positive symptoms of schizophrenia - (ANSWER)hallucinations
-auditory (hearing)
-visual (seeing)
-olfactory (smelling things)
-tactile (feeling)
delusions
-of grandeur (thinking they are special and different from everyone else, the idea that they are napoleon
or Jesus Christ)
-persecution (thinking they are being tracked or followed by secret agencies)
disordered thinking (thoughts are being interfered with
-broadcast
-insertion
-withdrawals
negative symptoms - (ANSWER)Anhedonia- when tasks that usually excite you no longer do
Avolition- when a person cannot strive towards goal orienated behaviour
Alogia (speech poverty) - when a person is unable to speak fluently and is very disjointed, usually having
no coherent point
Flattening of affect- when a person no longer cares or shows emotions, such as using eye contact, body
language, smiling.
1
, SCHIZOPHRENIA - AQA A LEVEL PSYCHOLOGYLATEST 2025 (PAPER 3) WITH QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS RADED A+ GUARANTEED PASS
how do we classify schizophrenia - (ANSWER)using the diagnostics and statistical manual of mental
disorder(DSM)
DSM-5 says that you must have at least one positive symptom and must last at least a month
problems with using the DSM
Reliability - (ANSWER)inter-rater reliability- when two different people get the same result using the
same test, this is measured using the kappa score
a score of 1 means there is a lot of agreement
0 means no agreement
Regier- schizophrenia only had a 0.46 score on the kappa score
Rosenhan and reliability - (ANSWER)wanted to test the reliability of the diagnosis of schizophrenia
He tested if "normal" mentally stable people would be diagnosed as schizophrenic
8 people were asked to act as "schizophrenics" by saying they could hear and see things.
8 people were called pseudo patients
The pseudo patients tried to get admission to various hospitals in the US.
All were admitted and 7/8 were diagnosed as schizophrenic
When in the hospital they all behaved normally and attempted to be released
2
, SCHIZOPHRENIA - AQA A LEVEL PSYCHOLOGYLATEST 2025 (PAPER 3) WITH QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS RADED A+ GUARANTEED PASS
It took them 7-50 days to be released
The medical staff had no clue that they weren't mentally ill but the schizophrenics thought they were
there to check up on the hospital.
Rosenhan study critique - (ANSWER)Observational field experiment so it had high ecological validity
But they used an old version of the DSM (DSM-II)
Cultural differences in reliability of diagnosing
schizophrenia
Copeland - (ANSWER)Copeland gave psychiatrists in the U.K. and US a description of a patient.
69% of US diagnosed them as a schizo
2% of UK diagnosed them as a schizo
Luhrmann et al and HEARING VOICES - (ANSWER)Compared the types of voices that were heard from
Ghana India and US
The African and Indian people heard positive voices while the Americans heard negative voices.
So hearing voices may not be an inevitable feature of schizo
Is the diagnosis of schizophrenia valid? - (ANSWER)Gender bias
Co morbidity
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