CAIE A-Level Psychology Treatment and Management of Schizophrenia

Describe this psychological knowledge.
Syllabus: 1.1.3 Treatment and management of schizophrenia - electro-
convulsive therapy.
Description:
1. Muscle relaxant given; electricity applied bilaterally or unilaterally; patient
convulses (twitches because of muscle relaxant); patient is unconscious, then wakes and recovers.
2. Possible side effects: 20% to 50% of the people who respond well to a
course of ECT relapse within 6 months; Short-term memory loss is often reported. Many patients perceive the treatment as terrifying and shameful.
Immediately after treatment the patient is often confused (and the confusion
may not be temporary).

Explain how you used two features of this psychological knowledge to plan your experiment.

Candidates should explain how the psychological knowledge described in (b)(i) has informed their plan in part (a).

For each feature:

Marks & Description

2 &
Suitable answer that identifies a feature and explains how the

feature was used, expanded or modified to make it appropriate

to the plan. The knowledge has clearly been applied to the plan.

1

Basic answer that identifies a feature.

0

No creditable response.

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Example: IV group with ECT and group without. Control: both groups with no other medication or treatment. Design: independent. Hypothesis directional: ECT more problems than not. 'Problems' could be side effects i.e. the DV.
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