25 questions
Meta-analysis showing that urban dwellers are more likely to have schizophrenia than rural dwellers
Vassos et al. (2012)
Veling et al. (2010)
Gottesman and Shields (1966)
Vassos et al meta-analysis was showed urban dwellers were how many times more likely to have schizophrenia than rural dwellers?
2.37
3.27
1.37
7.23
How many people in Vassos et al (2012) study?
nearly 24,000
2413
241
nearly 240,000
How many studies were part of Vassos's meta-analysis?
24
4
42
242
Which country was not represented in Vassos's study?
Sweden
Denmark
The Netherlands
Finland
Problem with much of the research into the link between urbanicity and schizophrenia
Correlational data can't show cause and effect
Case studies can't be generalised
Self Reported Questionnaires means data may not be valid
Laboratory Experiments sometimes lack ecological validity
Name of the alternative hypothesis that might explain why their are more people with schizophrenia living in cities
social drift
social defeat
social competition
social identity
Study that support social drift
Goldberg and Morrison
Veling
Vassos
Cooper
Problem with social causation is that there is evidence from MZ/DZ twin studies to support that SZ has a genetic component, for example
Gottesman and Shields (1966)
Gottesman et al. (1991)
Tienari et al. (1985)
Brendgen et al. (2005)
Concordance rate for schizophrenia in monozygotic twins was XXX% compared with just XXX% in dizygotic twins, (Gottesman and Shields 1966)
42% and 9%
32% and 11%
79% and 45%
54% and 18%
Concordance rate for Mz and DZ twins when one co-twin has SZ and the other either has SZ, another psychiatric diagnosis or sub-clinical signs of abnormality of any sort
79% and 45%
42% and 9%
54% and 18%
21% and 55%
Term given to the interactionist model that says SZ may results from a genetic predisposition, but it only manifests itself if there is also an environmental trigger?
Diathesis-Stress
Social Defeat
Nature-Nurture
Epigenetics
Who says that people with weak ethnic identity are at increased risk of SZ?
Veling
Viking
Vassos
Van Willigen
Wim Veling and colleagues says SZ is linked to our ethnic and national identity. Which two types of people are more likely to have schizophrenia?
marginalised and assimilated
assimilated and separated
separated and integrated
integrated and marginalised
Marginalisation results from
weak ethnic and national identity
strong ethnic and national identity
weak ethnic identity and strong national identity
strong ethnic identity and weak national identity
Assimilation is classified as
Strong national identity and weak ethnic identity
Strong national and ethnic identity
Weak national and ethnic identity
Weak national identity and strong ethnic identity
Veling classified separation as
strong ethnic identity and weak national identity
weak ethnic identity and strong national identity
weak ethnic identity and national identity
strong ethnic identity and national identity
Veling classified integrated as
Strong ethnic and national identity
Weak ethnic and national identity
Strong ethnic and weak national identity
Weak ethnic and strong national identity
What method did Veling use to classify people into assimilated, integrated, separated and marginalised?
questionnaires
observation
case study
correlation
How could schizophrenia be prevented according to Veling?
Build stronger national identity in immigrants
Build stronger ethnic identity in immigrants
Pekka Tienari and colleagues used what research method in their research on social causation?
MZ/DZ twin study
adoption study
meta-analysis
cross-cultural study
What country was Tienari's study based in?
Sweden
Finland
The Netherlands
Denmark
Where was Veling's research conducted?
The Netherlands
Finland
Sweden
Denmark
How many adopted offspring of biological mothers with schizophrenia became schziophrenic themselves when adopted into healthy or even in mildly disturbed adoptive families?
0/43
37/43
4/43
4/37
What percentage of the control offspring who were living in severely dysfunctional families but without a biological parent with schizophrenia turned out to be severely disturbed themselves?
0%
37%
43%
79%