Morrison (1998)
- Explains positive symptoms
- Proposed that maladaptive thoughts could offer an explanation as to why people have
auditory hallucinations
- Triggers (sleep deprivation) can lead to not only hearing voices, but hearing them in a
maladaptive way
Frith (1979)
- Explains positive symptoms
- Argues that schizophrenia was from a breakdown in the individual’s thought filtering
process
- People with schizophrenia have issues with attention and have difficulty filtering out
irrelevant information
- Inability to focus gives impression of disorganised thinking and speech
- All cognitive deficits caused by abnormalities in certain areas of the brain
Beck et al (2008)
- Explains negative symptoms
- Idea of the cognitive triad
- negatives views of the world = negative views of future = negative views of self
- individual possess dysfunctional beliefs about themselves, their performance and ability to
experience pleasure
- Explains positive symptoms
- Proposed that maladaptive thoughts could offer an explanation as to why people have
auditory hallucinations
- Triggers (sleep deprivation) can lead to not only hearing voices, but hearing them in a
maladaptive way
Frith (1979)
- Explains positive symptoms
- Argues that schizophrenia was from a breakdown in the individual’s thought filtering
process
- People with schizophrenia have issues with attention and have difficulty filtering out
irrelevant information
- Inability to focus gives impression of disorganised thinking and speech
- All cognitive deficits caused by abnormalities in certain areas of the brain
Beck et al (2008)
- Explains negative symptoms
- Idea of the cognitive triad
- negatives views of the world = negative views of future = negative views of self
- individual possess dysfunctional beliefs about themselves, their performance and ability to
experience pleasure
