Cognitive Addiction Flashcards
Beck cycle
Low mood is relives by the addiction
Addiction leads to problems
Problems lead to a low mood
Cycle
Self medication model
Initiate to cope with stress Not random it's been selected as it is seen to help The behaviour fulfils -mood regulation -performance management -distraction
Maintain because it relives stress
However smokers report higher stress than non smokers
The immediate effect = lowers stress or withdrawal
Chronic = increase long term stress
Ao2 self medication model
Explains why people with problems turn to substance abuse
People with no problems = addiction?!
Rational choice model
Based on concept of usefulness
Initiate if pros out weight cons
Maintain until cons out weigh pros - pregnant
Ao2 rational choice
Government interventions
Increase price of cigarettes
Draw attention to costs
Self efficacy model
The belief in ones self to organise and control actions to achieve the goal
Initiation is whether you engage in the behaviour of not
Maintain if you feel like you can’t stop
Griffiths
30 gamblers to non gamblers
Measured verbalisations whilst playing a fruit machine
Regular gamblers
- believed they were more skillful than they were
-Irrational verbalisations (quid bluff the machine)
-treated it like a person (not in a good mood)
-explained losses as near wins which justified continuation
Default players were capable of gambling without attending what the were doing -auto pilot
No support - not thinking
Ao2 cognitive
Victimises addict - own fault
Oversimplified - SLT
Explains individual differences - have developed a faulty cognitive bias
Publication bias - studies that fail to Show a link between positive expectations and addictive behaviour might not be published
Cognitive
Thinking and interpreting leads to initiation, maintained and relapse
A way of coping with problems
If the coping mechanisms are used excessively = problems
