Lecture 5: Assessing and Changing Implicit Cognitive Processes in Addiction Flashcards
cognitive biases (toward addiction-related stimuli):
- attentional bias: engagement/disengagement
- approach bias: action tendencies
- memory bias: retrieval (antecedents/effects)
hoe zou je die 3 cognitive biases in het echt zien
Attention: where do you look?
Memory: first thing you think of?
Action tendency: what movement would you tend to do?
dual process models
system 1 (impulsive, thinking fast) and system 2 (reflective, thinking slow)
hoe ziet het dual process theory addiction
addiction as a conflict between:
- system 1 (impulsive, associative reflex)
- system 2 (reflective, propositional)
wat gebeurt er tijdens addiction volgens het dual process theory
with repeated use, system 1 leads to sensitization (stronger arousal reactions with the addiction cue)
- automatic appetitive action tendency (approach)
- sensitive to current needs (craving thirst)
dual process model kritiek =
- these characteristics are not well correlated
- many processes have some mixture of characteristics
- no isolatable systems
attentional-bias = wat is het en hoe meet je het
- Motivationally relevant stimuli attract and capture attention
- Related to subjective craving (with elaboration in WM)
Meten:
- Dot/visual probe test
- Eye movements
dot/visual probe test resultaten
addicted people would have a shorter reaction if the dot appeared after the drug cue, and longer reaction time if the dot appeared after the non-drug cue (bv spa)
hoe meet je approach bias
- met de SRC (stimulus response compatibility) task
- AAT (approach avoidance task): assessing automatically activated action-tendencies to approach alcohol
stimulus response compatibility task
mannequin task, people are explicitly told to:
Block 1: approach alcohol and avoid neutral stimuli.
Block 2: avoid alcohol and approach neutral
(in AAT geen explicit instructions, maar just picture cues -> tilt of the picture)
results of approach bias tests
light drinkers are more avoidant than heavy drinkers, these heavy drinkers approach alcohol more. especially those with risk allele OPRM1 (mu-opioid receptor gene, also related to cue-induced craving).
future relevant vs future irrelevant paradigms
future irrelevant (cues not related to abuse) have more indirect instructions but are less reliable. bijvoorbeeld de AAT dan future irrelevant (want gaat op basis van hoe de picture tilted is)
wat zijn measurement issues bij attentional and approach bias
- irrelevant feature methods: people respond to something else than the content
- also measures executive functions
- soms mensen meer en soms mensen minder cravings, dus kan verschillen per tijdsmoment
daarom goed voor automatic mechanisms on group level, but not for individual diagnosis
hoe meet je memory bias in addiction
with RT tests, eg. Implicit Association Test (IAT). bijvoorbeeld kijken welke ze eerder met ‘fun’ associeren: active alcohol/neutral softdrink. en dan is R2 “neutral alcohol” vs “active softdrink”en fun, dan is er een soort error. dit is dan de baseline.
dan RT2 - RT1
IAT predicts alcohol use in youth, one year later
- Related to drinking, also after controlling for explicit expectancies (Wiers et al 2002; Houben & Wiers, 2006; 2008);
- Best predictor of escalation of drinking in adolescents (Thush et al 2007)
- Not a pure measure of associations, for example EC artefact (switching)
- Possibilities to decompose score and estimate associations (Quad model)
- Alcohol-arousal associations related to heavy drinking, equivalent of sensitization? (Wiers et al 2002; Houben et al 2006)
- More recent work highlights relevance me-drinker associations (e.g., Lindgren et al 2012; 2016)
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non-RT tasks from memory research
- outcome-behaviour associations (having fun)
- cue-behaviour associations (friday night)
- word associations (bottle)
(these tests do not ask for introspection or recollection, just ask for the first word or behaviour that comes to mind)
wat is de rol van working memory
working memory capacity can moderate the process from implicit cognitive processes to alcohol use.
hoe meet je de invloed van WM
jongeren met lager iq moesten pictures selecteren die ze leuk vonden totdat alle fotos zijn geselecteerd (Self Ordered Pointing Task).
lager WM leidt tot specifieke associaties to predict alcohol use. higher WM leidt tot betere controle, explicit expectancies.
wat is er met executive functions
poorly developed executive functions make one more vulnerable to appetitive impulses (craving)
conclusions in cognitive processes
- Cognitive Biases related to substance use
- Biases in attention, action tendencies, cognitions
- Cognitive control processes (e.g., working
memory) moderator: stronger influence of
automatically activated cognitions in
individuals with relatively weak control
capacity
verschil general ability training en cognitive bias modification
general ability training: echt trainen, ook zonder cues
cognitive bias modification: als er wel cues zijn, change your associations
wat zijn voordelen en nadelen aan general ability training
- voordelen: opens up temporal window, opportunity for influence long goals
- issues: generalization difficult to: high risk situation, therapeutic goals, addiction outcomes