The Psychology of Addictive Behaviour - Biological Approach Studies

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  • Created on: 27-01-16 15:21

1. What did Breen and Zimmerman find?

  • Doesn't explain why some types of gambling are more addictive
  • Online gambling addiction takes 1 year, horseracing gambling addiction takes 3.5 years
  • Other factors are more important
  • Alcohol plays a large part
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2. Who did the study of 1,500 dutch twins about heritability of smoking?

  • Vink et al
  • Buka et al
  • Paris et al
  • Xian et al

3. What did Vink et al find in the maintenance of smoking addiction?

  • maintenence of addiction equally biological factors and external factors
  • nicotine dependence is 75% genetics, nicotine metabolism
  • smoking in pregnancy doubles future smoking risk of fetus
  • nicotine dependence is 85% genetics

4. Who found that in pathological gamblers, there was no cortisol reaction when watching gambling

  • Paris et al
  • Vink et al
  • Xian et al
  • Zuckerman

5. What % did Xian et al find responsibility for failure to quit due to heritability?

  • 54%
  • 56%
  • 47%
  • 44%
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