Griffiths - (Gambling)

Question 0

What is the illusion of control Heuristic in Griffiths study?

Answer 0

Behaviours which give you the illusion you are in control

Question 1

What are the heuristics that gamblers hold in Griffiths study?

Answer 1

Illusion of control, Flexible attributions, Representativeness, Availability Bias, Illusionary correlations and Fixation on absolute frequency

Question 2

What is the Flexible attributions heuristic in Griffiths?

Answer 2

Gamblers self-esteem is boosted by believing success is down to their own skill

Question 3

What is the repressiveness heuristic in Griffiths?

Answer 3

A belief that random events have a pattern

Question 4

What is the availability bias heuristic in Griffiths study?

Answer 4

People’s judgements reflect the frequency of relevant instances

Question 5

What is the illusory correlations heuristic in Griffiths study?

Answer 5

People believe that some events are correlated with success

Question 6

What is the fixation on absolute frequency heuristic?

Answer 6

Measuring success in terms of absolute rather than relative frequency

Question 7

What were the aims of Griffiths?

Answer 7

1. No differences between RGs & NRG’s in terms of skill
2. RG’s produce more irrational verbalisations than NRG’s
3. RG’s are more skill orientated than NRG’s
4. Participants in the thinking aloud condition would take longer than those not in this condition

Question 8

What was fruit machine skill defined as in Griffiths?

Answer 8

Ability of individual to affect the outcome of gambling positively

Question 9

What were irrational verbalisations defined as in Griffiths study?

Answer 9

Personification of the machine

Question 10

Who were the participants of Griffiths study?

Answer 10

60 - mean age 23.4
30 = 29 males & 1 female - RG
30 = 15 males & 15 females - NRG

Question 11

How regularly did the RG’s gamble in Griffiths study?

Answer 11

At least once a week

Question 12

How regularly would NRG’s gamble in Griffiths study?

Answer 12

Gambled once a month or less

Question 13

How were participants recruited in Griffiths study?

Answer 13

Snowball sampling technique + Posters

Question 14

What was the procedure of Griffiths study?

Answer 14

• Each participant given £3 to gamble on fruit machine
• Asked to play FRUITSKILL
• Try to stay on machine until they break-even then they can carry on or not

Question 15

What were the dependent variables of Griffiths?

Answer 15

Total plays, Total time, Play rate, End Stake, Wins, Win rate (plays), Win rate (time)

Question 16

How was the 4th hypothesis of Griffiths studied?

Answer 16

Half the participants were randomly allocated to the thinking aloud group in which you’d say all of the memory processes while playing

Question 17

What occurred after playing on the machines in Griffiths study?

Answer 17

Participants interviewed.

Asked about opinion of level of skill required and asked to judge own skill level

Question 18

What were the results of behavioural data within Griffiths study?

Answer 18

RG’s had a high play rate 8:6

RG’s who thought aloud had a significantly lower win rate

Question 19

What were the results of the analysis of the interview for Griffiths?

Answer 19

RG’s = equal chance & skill, above average skill level and ‘skills’ were not playing once machine has cashed out