Addiction Flashcards
What is meant by Physical Dependance
When someone needs to a drug in order to function properly or feel normal
What is meant by Psychological Dependance
The belief that someone needs to take a drug but can function perfectly without it
What is meant by Tolerance
Where someone no longer acts the same way to a drug so increases their usage
Define Withdrawal
Unpleasant physical or psychological effects due to the removal of a drug
What candidate gene can cause addiction
Faulty A1DRD2 Gene
How does a Faulty A1DRD2 Gene lead to addiction
- Insufficient Dopamine Receptors in the Brains Reward System
- People use smoking to raise Dopamine Levels Artificially
Explain how Addiction is gained through Social Learning Theory
- Behaviour is observed from role model and then we imitate it
- Vicarious Reinforcement
What is Cue Reactivity
- We make association of our addiction with cues in our environment (CC)
- This leads to Conditioned Responses of the Addiction
How is Smoking Addiction maintained through Negative Reinforcement
Smokers don’t like the negative symptoms such as Nausea so increase smoking to reduce it
Explain Personality as an explanation to addiction
Extarversim - Extraverts are under arousal and engage in addictive behaviour to gain stimulation
Neuroticism - People high on this experience negative affect
A03 Personality
- Cause and effect
- Wan Sen Yen
Explain the stress explanation of addiction
Everyday Stress - Stress that is gained due to demands that someone faces day to day
Traumatic Stress - Stress gained from a life threating experience
AO3 Stress
- Cause and Effect
- Tavolacci (High Stressed Students)
Peer Pressure Explanation
- SLT
- Social Identification Theory
AO3 Peer Pressure
- Cause and Affect
- Prac App
