Practise schizophrenia diagnosis, biological and cognitive explanations and antipsychotic, ECT or CBT management, applying each account to symptoms and debates.
The key study by Freeman et al. (2003), using virtual reality to investigate persecutory ideation, included a number of self-reports such as the VR-Paranoia questionnaire.
Give two examples of items (questions) included in the VR-Paranoia questionnaire.
Explain two strengths of using virtual reality to treat schizophrenia.
Prisha is hearing voices that seem real to her but no one else in her family can hear them. She tells her doctor about the voices and that her identical twin sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia three years ago. Prisha's doctor diagnoses her with schizophrenia.
Outline two explanations for Prisha's diagnosis, based on what she told her doctor.
There can be problems with using electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) as a treatment for schizophrenia, for example side effects.
Plan an experiment with a longitudinal design to investigate whether there are problems with ECT as a treatment for schizophrenia.
Your plan must include details about:
- controls
- a directional or non-directional hypothesis.
For one piece of psychological knowledge on which your plan is based:
Describe this psychological knowledge.
Explain how you used two features of this psychological knowledge to plan your experiment.
