The essay should be written by completing the exercise
Exercise on Attributional Style
Read Gross (2020) Focus 44.4 p.758 and Evaluation 44.2 page 759. It discusses a number of issues with the Depressive Attributional Style being a cause of depression.
1. Use the reference to Hamilton and Abramson (1983) to critically evaluate the assumption that Attributional Style represents a permanent personality type.
2. What aspects of childhood experience did Rose et al (1984) find were related to the Depressive Attributional Style?
Cognitive explanations of schizophrenia
Cognitive explanations are covered in Gross (2020) p. 766 and Lawton et al (Book 2, 2015) p. 206
1. Explain how, in general, a cognitive approach would explain the problems of schizophrenia
2. Explainthetermsmetacognitionandexecutivefunctioning
3. Givetwoexamplesofresearchstudiesthatsupporttheimportanceof cognitive factors in schizophrenia
4. Whatevaluativepointswouldyoumakeaboutdysfunctionalthought processing and schizophrenia
Dopamine and schizophrenia
1. See Gross (2020) page 762 and explain the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia and how chlorpromazine may relieve the symptoms of schizophrenia
2. See Lawton et al (2015) page 201 Evaluation and give 3 problems with the dopamine hypothesis
Exercise on Depression and neurotransmitters
1. Neurotransmitter explanation of depression see Gross (2020) The Science of Mind and Behaviour p757
Read Gross (2020) Evaluation Box 44.1 page 758 and answer the following:
1. Explain how men and women respond differently to drug treatment
2. Give two criticisms of the neurotransmitter explanation
One main source has to be an AQA A-level psychology book 2 or any other that can be used to complete the exercise
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