Biological Approach

Question 1

What was the maintenance study for the biological approach to gambling

Answer 1

Paris: pathological gambling is associated with under active pituitary adrenal systems.

Question 2

What was the relapse study for the biological approach to gambling

Answer 2

Blaszczynski: poor tolerance to boredom contributes to gambling

Question 3

What does the biological approach ignore

Answer 3

Importance of external factors

Question 4

Which study criticised the biological approach to gambling?

Answer 4

Breen and Zimmerman: cannot explain why some types of gambling are more addictive than others

Question 5

Smoking biological initiating study?

Answer 5

Vink: heritability of tobacco SMOKIN between 39% and 80%

Question 6

Smoking biological maintenance stdy?

Answer 6

Vink: nicotine dependence influenced by generic factors 75% of cases

Question 7

Smoking biological relapse study?

Answer 7

Xian: 54% factors of quittin attributed to genetics done by twin studies.

Question 8

Smoking biological evaluation

Answer 8

Neglects factors like social context

Question 9

What did Black find?

Answer 9

First degree relatives of gamblers are statistically more likely to gamble than distant relatives