Gaming addiction Flashcards
What does the MAC-r scale measure?
It measures the addiction proness based on a personality pattern
What does the APS scale measure/do?
It identifies personality and lifestyle patterns
What are the differenses between MAC-r scale and the APS?
MAC-r asses the risk on basis of anti-social impulsive personality patterns
APS asses risk on basis of general psychological distress
What can addiction criteria be used for among gamers?
It can be used to destinguish the higly engages gamers from the addicted gamers
Are gamblers and drug users in the same range as alcoholics?
Yes
What did konijn conclude about high game exposure and game addiction?
There is a differene between boys that engage in high game exposure and boy that are addicted. They are two distinctive concepts. High game exposure is not the only cause of addiction, more elements cause it.
What does the Social cognition theory of mass communication talk about?
Morality involved from social norms in a persons environment and media can be a tool to socialize children and learn them about social norms
What is moral disengagement?
A cognitive process that is facilitated
by seven mechanisms:
1 Moral justification
2 Exonerative comparison
3 Uphemistic language
4 Minimizing
5 Attribution of blame
6 Displacement/difussion of responsibility
7 Dehumanization
What is the connection between self-sanctions and moral disengagement?
Self-sanctions is when people learn standards of behaviour based on punishment/rewards. Moral disengagement can sabotage this process
What is the 3-factor theory of empathy?
The
theory suggests that empathy is a malleable process stemming from response to
all three types of experience. Morality serves as the gatekeeper, via empathy, of all narrative
enjoyment experiences.
What are the 3 factors of the 3-factor theory of empathy?
- The dispositional component is an evaluative, immediate motor response to emotional stimuli. No conscious control, blushing when feeling shame
- The excitatory component. Physiological response as energizing mechanism.
- The experiential component. Conscious reaction to the first two components like for example evaluating
What is the affective disposition theory?
the theory predicts that enjoyment increases when liked characters experience positive outcomes and/or when disliked characters experience negative ones.
What is the model of intuitive morality and exampers?
Describes a process of felt influence between media content and moral intuitions
