Key Words Flashcards
What is Addiction?
Something you can’t live without.
Why do we get addicted?
- classical conditioning
- lower stress levels
- conformity
- habit formation
- release
- social influence
- observational learning
- cognitive priming
What is health and ill health?
Health is the state of being free from illness or injury.
What is the biomedical model of health?
Focuses on biological aspects of health.
A person is healthy in the absence of disease. 2 categories viewed well or not.
What is the biopsychosocial model of health?
A hollistic (whole person) approach that considered lifestyle and integrates factors from the biomedical model. Health as a continuum.
What are the role of cues?
Explains healthy and unhealthy behaviour.
A cue is something that triggers behaviour in some way.
Cues happen because of classical conditioning.
What is classical conditioning?
Where you have formed an association between 2 things.
What is vicarious reinforcement?
When it happens now and again.
E.g. rewarded sometimes for gambling.
What is operant conditioning?
Being rewarded e.g. gambling and winning.
What is an incentive?
Reason to do something.
What is a token used for?
A method of introducing rewards to manage and improve good behaviour.
Name a strength and weakness of the behavioural approach to addiction.
Strength: offers effective treatment for addiction e.g. aversion therapy.
Weakness: can’t explain why some people get addicted and others don’t unlike the biological approach.
Name a strength and weakness of the learning approach.
Strength: provides a useful therapy - conversion therapy for drug addicts.
Weakness: it ignores genetics and the biological approach of an addictive gene.
Explain what is meant by daily hassles.
Little things that are inconvenient.
What is genetic predisposition?
Getting more at risk of something because of your genetic make up.
