Cause: Psychosocial
What will be an ideal response?
Stress (e.g., research by Dohrenwend & Egri; Ventura et al.)
Little evidence that specific stressors more toxic than others
Aggregate stress load more important
Play role in risk for expression / relapse
Expressed Emotion (EE)
Brown et al. (1962)
Criticism (disapproval)
Hostility (animosity)
Emotional over-involvement (intrusiveness)
Cognitive perspective
Those experiencing hallucinations often turn to family / friends
Family / friends deny reality of these sensations
Conclude that others trying to hide the truth from them
Rational Road to Madness:
Begin to reject all feedback from others that is inconsistent with their own experience ...
Some develop beliefs (delusions) that they are being intentionally mislead / persecuted
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a. separate and unrelated b. related and ongoing c. related but separate d. related but time-limited
Westermark's theory was that people inherently avoid sexual relations with those whom they grow up with because
a. they fear the social taboo. b. they do not want to upset the family structure. c. early familiarity results in dislike for one another. d. early familiarity results in a lack of sexual attraction when they become adolescents and adults.