PSYA4- Cognitive models
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- Created on: 25-02-15 09:35
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- Cognitive models for addictive beheviours
- self-regulation
- key factor in the development of addiction problems
- involves weighing up the importance of social and physical factors and personal goals when planning beheviour
- addictive beheviours are thought to occur more in those who place reliance on external structures (e.g. drugs) to maintain balance between physical and psychological needs
- involves weighing up the importance of social and physical factors and personal goals when planning beheviour
- people who engage in self destructive beheviours have Impaired control of their own actions, they want to stop but cannot; they have faulty ways of weighing up consequences
- Ainslie- people are able to consider present and future consequences but they attach different significance to them; placing too much enphasis on the short term rewards
- Herrnstein and Prelec- this is called cognitive myopia- giving into short term desires or 'short sightedness'
- Ainslie- people are able to consider present and future consequences but they attach different significance to them; placing too much enphasis on the short term rewards
- Beck et al- addictive beliefs play and important part in the development of addictive behaviours. a person may find it fun to smoke/drink but these beliefs change into needing to smoke/drink
- these people often have a very negative view of themselves and may have depression or anxiety
- key factor in the development of addiction problems
- the cognitive processing model
- Tiffany- addictive behaviours become automatic- we don't think about doing them, we just do
- everyday the addict is faced with triggers for the the automatic response of addiction-
- resisting these automatic responses requires huge mental effort and for everything else in their life to be in order
- everyday the addict is faced with triggers for the the automatic response of addiction-
- Tiffany- addictive behaviours become automatic- we don't think about doing them, we just do
- self-regulation
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