Schizophrenia - AQA A Level Psychology LATEST 2025
(Paper 3) WITH QUESTIONS AND WELL DETAILED
ANSWERS|| GRADED A+|| NEWEST VERSION
schizophrenia -CORRECTANSWER a psychotic disorder
positive symptoms of schizophrenia -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER 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.
how do we classify schizophrenia -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER 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
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 -CORRECTANSWER Observational field experiment so it had
high ecological validity
(Paper 3) WITH QUESTIONS AND WELL DETAILED
ANSWERS|| GRADED A+|| NEWEST VERSION
schizophrenia -CORRECTANSWER a psychotic disorder
positive symptoms of schizophrenia -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER 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.
how do we classify schizophrenia -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER 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
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 -CORRECTANSWER Observational field experiment so it had
high ecological validity
