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Name a strength for psychological explanations

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Support for different information processing - Stirling et al

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What did Stirling et al do

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Compare to 30 patients with schizophrenia to 18 non-patients in a control group on cognitive tasks

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What did Stirling et al find

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Patients took over twice as long as the control group to suppress the impulse to read the word and to name that in colour instead - supports theory of central control dysfunction - evidence show that processing differs in SZ patients

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Name a limitation for psychological explanations

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Evidence for family relationships is often retrospective - Read et al

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What did Read et al study

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Reviewed at 46 studies and concluded that 69% of all adult female inpatients with schizophrenia had a history of physical or sexual abuse in childhood

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Why does Read et al’s research create an issue

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Most of the evidence is based on information about childhood experience gathered long after diagnosis - symptoms may have distorted the patient recall of the childhood experiences - creates problem with validity