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The genetic explanation is supported by higher risk linked to biological parents’ diagnoses."},{"text":"Risk was higher when teachers reported behavioural difficulties.","correct":false,"explanation":"Teachers’ reports of behaviour would concern observable development rather than inherited risk. Gottesman et al. supported genetics by linking higher risk to psychiatric diagnoses in biological parents."},{"text":"Risk was higher when families had lower socioeconomic status.","correct":false,"explanation":"A link with lower socioeconomic status would primarily suggest an environmental or social explanation. The genetic account was supported because risk increased with biological parents’ psychiatric diagnoses."}]},{"id":"58adba02-2f11-4055-95cf-c6fbb3933263","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why is Gottesman et al.'s huge sample a strength?","back":"It improves reliability and statistical power.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It improves reliability and statistical power.","correct":true,"explanation":"A huge sample makes findings less vulnerable to unusual individuals and increases the chance of detecting genuine differences, thereby improving reliability and statistical power."},{"text":"It guarantees validity and cause and effect.","correct":false,"explanation":"A large sample cannot guarantee valid measurements or establish causation, especially in correlational research. Its main benefits are greater reliability and increased statistical power."},{"text":"It removes confounding variables and researcher bias.","correct":false,"explanation":"Increasing sample size does not automatically control shared environments, other confounding variables, or researcher bias. It mainly improves the reliability of findings and statistical power."},{"text":"It increases experimental control and ecological validity.","correct":false,"explanation":"Sample size alone does not create experimental control or determine ecological validity. The huge sample is valuable because it improves reliability and provides greater statistical power."}]},{"id":"04aab2ba-b5aa-4642-9a9f-29b5183d9ccd","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why is Gottesman et al.'s correlational design a weakness?","back":"It cannot prove genes caused the disorder because families share environments.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It cannot prove genes caused the disorder because families share environments.","correct":true,"explanation":"A correlation between biological relatedness and schizophrenia does not isolate genetic influence. Relatives also experience similar environments, so the study cannot establish that genes caused the disorder."},{"text":"It cannot prove diagnoses were reliable because families share environments.","correct":false,"explanation":"Shared family environments create a problem for separating genetic and environmental causes, not for establishing diagnostic reliability. The design cannot prove that genes caused schizophrenia."},{"text":"It cannot prove the sample was large because families share environments.","correct":false,"explanation":"Sample size is established directly from the population registers and is unrelated to shared environments. The correlational weakness is that shared environments prevent proof that genes caused schizophrenia."},{"text":"It cannot prove registers were official because families share environments.","correct":false,"explanation":"Whether registers are official depends on their source, not on family environments. The real limitation is that shared environments confound the relationship, preventing proof of genetic causation."}]},{"id":"704a9277-80e4-4f93-a798-02984283a514","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"Assuming Danish findings apply everywhere risks [ ].","back":"Assuming Danish findings apply everywhere risks ethnocentrism.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"ethnocentrism","correct":true,"explanation":"Ethnocentrism occurs when findings from one culture are treated as universally applicable, using that culture as the standard while overlooking meaningful cultural differences."},{"text":"androcentrism","correct":false,"explanation":"Androcentrism involves treating male experience as the norm, rather than generalising across cultures. Applying Danish findings everywhere risks ethnocentrism because one culture is assumed to represent all cultures."},{"text":"biological reductionism","correct":false,"explanation":"Biological reductionism explains behaviour using basic biological processes, such as genes or neurotransmitters. Generalising Danish findings to other cultures instead risks ethnocentrism."},{"text":"environmental determinism","correct":false,"explanation":"Environmental determinism assumes that behaviour is controlled by external influences. The issue here is ethnocentrism because findings from one national culture are being treated as universal."}]},{"id":"cbce9b0e-4be2-43bd-b401-0ef717dd3ef9","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"What is the main biological treatment for schizophrenia?","back":"Antipsychotic medication.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Antipsychotic medication.","correct":true,"explanation":"Antipsychotic medication is the principal biological treatment for schizophrenia, acting on neurotransmitter systems to reduce symptoms, particularly positive symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions."},{"text":"Cognitive behavioural therapy.","correct":false,"explanation":"Cognitive behavioural therapy can help patients challenge distressing interpretations, but it is a psychological treatment. The main biological treatment for schizophrenia is antipsychotic medication."},{"text":"Family therapy.","correct":false,"explanation":"Family therapy aims to improve communication and reduce expressed emotion within families, so it is psychosocial rather than biological. Antipsychotic medication is the main biological treatment."},{"text":"Token economy programmes.","correct":false,"explanation":"Token economies use operant conditioning to reinforce desirable behaviour, making them behavioural treatments. The principal biological treatment for schizophrenia is antipsychotic medication."}]},{"id":"1c0bad9c-a8ef-45d9-9325-4bad857a444d","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"How do typical antipsychotics reduce positive symptoms?","back":"They block D2 dopamine receptors, reducing dopamine activity.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"They block D2 dopamine receptors, reducing dopamine activity.","correct":true,"explanation":"Typical antipsychotics act mainly as D2 receptor antagonists. Blocking these dopamine receptors lowers dopamine activity in relevant pathways, helping to reduce positive symptoms."},{"text":"They stimulate D2 dopamine receptors, increasing dopamine activity.","correct":false,"explanation":"This reverses the actual mechanism: greater D2 stimulation would be expected to worsen positive symptoms. Typical antipsychotics block D2 dopamine receptors and reduce dopamine activity."},{"text":"They block serotonin receptors, reducing serotonin activity.","correct":false,"explanation":"Serotonin receptor action is more strongly associated with atypical antipsychotics. Typical antipsychotics primarily reduce positive symptoms by blocking D2 dopamine receptors."},{"text":"They stimulate serotonin receptors, increasing serotonin activity.","correct":false,"explanation":"This confuses typical antipsychotics with mechanisms involving serotonin. Typical drugs mainly work by blocking D2 dopamine receptors, thereby reducing dopamine activity linked to positive symptoms."}]},{"id":"34a561a9-b2ad-409c-99f1-fa63f519d225","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"Atypical antipsychotics affect dopamine and often [ ] systems.","back":"Atypical antipsychotics affect dopamine and often serotonin systems.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"serotonin","correct":true,"explanation":"Atypical antipsychotics act on dopamine and serotonin systems, often combining D2 dopamine antagonism with effects at particular serotonin receptors."},{"text":"GABA","correct":false,"explanation":"GABA is the brain’s main inhibitory neurotransmitter, but it is not the second system emphasised in the standard account of atypical antipsychotics. The correct term is serotonin."},{"text":"glutamate","correct":false,"explanation":"Glutamate has been investigated in explanations of schizophrenia, but standard atypical antipsychotics are described as affecting dopamine and serotonin systems."},{"text":"acetylcholine","correct":false,"explanation":"Acetylcholine contributes to functions such as memory and movement, but it is not the main additional system targeted in this account. Atypical antipsychotics often affect serotonin."}]},{"id":"7e61419e-87aa-45ad-8d9e-9659aa5f8345","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"Why does clozapine require medical monitoring?","back":"It can seriously affect white blood cells.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It can seriously affect white blood cells.","correct":true,"explanation":"Clozapine can cause agranulocytosis, a dangerous reduction in infection-fighting white blood cells. Regular blood tests are therefore required to monitor the patient’s white blood cell count."},{"text":"It can seriously affect red blood cells.","correct":false,"explanation":"This confuses agranulocytosis with anaemia, which concerns red blood cells. Clozapine monitoring primarily checks for a dangerous reduction in white blood cells."},{"text":"It can seriously affect blood platelets.","correct":false,"explanation":"Platelets are mainly involved in blood clotting, but the characteristic serious risk requiring clozapine monitoring is agranulocytosis, which affects white blood cells."},{"text":"It can seriously affect bone marrow cells.","correct":false,"explanation":"Although clozapine’s adverse effects involve blood-cell production in bone marrow, monitoring specifically detects dangerously reduced white blood cells. The required answer is therefore white blood cells."}]},{"id":"1b4dee40-588d-4eda-be88-9e6e94709ffd","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why is antipsychotic medication useful for many patients?","back":"It can reduce distressing symptoms and relapse risk.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It can reduce distressing symptoms and relapse risk.","correct":true,"explanation":"Antipsychotics can make symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions less distressing, while continued treatment may lower the likelihood of symptoms returning after improvement."},{"text":"It can improve memory function and social skills.","correct":false,"explanation":"Improved cognition and social ability are not the main established benefits, and some drugs may impair cognition. Antipsychotics are useful because they reduce distressing symptoms and relapse risk."},{"text":"It can eliminate underlying causes and all future symptoms.","correct":false,"explanation":"Medication manages symptoms rather than eliminating every underlying cause or guaranteeing a permanent cure. Its value lies in reducing distressing symptoms and lowering relapse risk."},{"text":"It can prevent all side effects and treatment resistance.","correct":false,"explanation":"Antipsychotics can themselves produce side effects, and some patients remain treatment-resistant. Their usefulness comes from reducing distressing symptoms and the risk of relapse."}]},{"id":"531de45d-1932-4189-8480-cc106f930646","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why can biological treatment of schizophrenia be criticised as reductionist?","back":"It may ignore trauma, family, social stress, poverty and culture.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It may ignore trauma, family, social stress, poverty and culture.","correct":true,"explanation":"A purely biological approach reduces schizophrenia to factors such as genes and neurotransmitters, potentially neglecting important psychological, family, socioeconomic and cultural influences."},{"text":"It may ignore dopamine, genes, brain structure, neural activity and biochemistry.","correct":false,"explanation":"These are precisely the biological factors emphasised by the medical model, not factors it typically ignores. Reductionism is criticised for neglecting trauma, family and wider social influences."},{"text":"It may ignore diagnosis, classification, reliability, validity and symptom measurement.","correct":false,"explanation":"These concern how schizophrenia is identified and assessed rather than why biological treatment is reductionist. The criticism is that it overlooks trauma, family, social stress, poverty and culture."},{"text":"It may ignore dosage, absorption, metabolism, receptor binding and drug half-life.","correct":false,"explanation":"These are pharmacological details that biological treatment can readily consider. The reductionism criticism instead focuses on neglecting broader psychological, family, social, economic and cultural factors."}]},{"id":"41a95664-1052-4593-944c-ecbb96a4f17b","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"How can antipsychotic side effects reduce effectiveness?","back":"Unpleasant side effects can cause non-adherence.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Unpleasant side effects can cause non-adherence.","correct":true,"explanation":"Patients may stop taking medication or take it inconsistently when side effects are unpleasant. This non-adherence reduces symptom control and increases the likelihood of relapse."},{"text":"Unpleasant side effects can cause treatment resistance.","correct":false,"explanation":"Treatment resistance means symptoms do not respond adequately despite suitable treatment; it is not simply caused by side effects. Side effects reduce effectiveness by encouraging non-adherence."},{"text":"Unpleasant side effects can cause faster drug metabolism.","correct":false,"explanation":"Drug metabolism is primarily determined by physiological and genetic factors, not by how unpleasant side effects feel. Side effects reduce effectiveness when they lead to non-adherence."},{"text":"Unpleasant side effects can cause diagnostic unreliability.","correct":false,"explanation":"Diagnostic unreliability concerns clinicians reaching inconsistent diagnoses, rather than patients’ responses to medication. Unpleasant side effects reduce treatment effectiveness by causing non-adherence."}]}]}],"examCountdown":{"examDate":"2027-05-18","paperLabel":"Paper 1"},"heading":"The medical model","title":"The medical model Flashcards","topbar":{"backHref":"/a-level/psychology/ocr/flashcards"},"topicSidebar":"$L38"}]}],"topicId":"560db943-a71b-5e93-8d8b-33aafa9a8b0c","walled":"$L39"}],"$L3a","$L3b"]