Learning theories Of Gambling

Question 1

Initiation

Answer 1

Gambler Rewarded 
Physiologically - dopamine
Psychologically - winning 
Social - becoming more popular/ admiration from others 
Financial- winning money

Question 2

Maintain

Answer 2

Due to operant conditioning
Wins are intermediate
Rewarded of long period of no win by payout
Skinner found greater behavioural change when less or unpredictable rewards were given to rats

Question 3

Relapse

Answer 3

Cues
Classical conditioning
Associate stimuli with the behaviour
Stimuli acts as a trigger - arousal increases and risk of relapse

Question 4

Nower

Answer 4

2 groups of gamblers 
One traced back to SLT 
One SLT and had anxiety and depression (emotionally vulnerable)
Just SLT were more likely to recover 
Anxiety were resistant to treatment

Question 5

Learning ao2

Answer 5

Can’t explain why if two people are exposed to same stimuli one can develop an addiction and one won’t
OVERSIMPLIFIED

Question 6

3 ways

Answer 6

Classical - associated with something pleasant

Operant - directly (reward)
- indirectly (terminate something unpleasant)

SLT- observe and imitate salient person