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comp 3 overview
addictive behavior
characteristics (AO1)
for 10 marks
biological explanation: dopamine
AO1:
initiating AB- Da in mesolimbic pathway
maintaining AB- Da and characteristics and salience
AO3:
volkow (fMRI)
stokes, yoder
application to treatment
wang et al PFC
reductionist
AO2: use agonist/ antagonist substitution to modify role of dopamine
individual differences explanation: personality
AO1:
eysenck resource model of addiction
psychoticism
neuroticism
extroversion/ introversion
AO3:
eysenck and gossop
dalley
methodological issues within research
role of personality limited as cant be linked to all ABs
too simplistic
social psychological explanations: peers
AO1:
perceived social norms (PSN)
social learning theory (SLT)
AO3:
bosari and carey
simmon morton and farhart
too simplistic
useful application
AO2:
SNMA used to modify role of peer influence
for 5 marks
biological explanation: genes
AO1:
D2A1 gene variant of the DRD2 gene
gene and alcoholism, ADH and ALDH gene and the variant ADH1B
AO3:
genetic explanation is scientific
it is deterministic
comings
tolstrup
individual differences explanation: cognitive biases
AO1:
gamblers fallacy/ representativeness
attentional bias
illusion of control
AO3:
griffiths
useful explanation to help modify AB
reductionist explanation
AO2:
CBT used to modify role of cognitive biases
social psychological explanations: role of media
AO1:
gnasekera analysed 87 of 200 movies
SLT
media glamourizes AB
AO3:
pechman and fong-shih
criticised for environmental determinism
highlights how influential; the media is- so can use the media for positive effects
methods of modifying:
agonist and antagonist substitution
aversion therapy
criminal behaviour
characteristics (AO1)
10 marks
biological explanation: abnormal brain activity
AO1:
amygdala- one in each hemisphere- medial temporal lobe
amygdala is ancient part of brain
overactive amygdala and crime
this is in combination with underactive PFC
underactive amygdala and crime
AO3:
coccaro (fMRI) and IED
yu gao longitudinal study of 1795 ppts
Raine
other explanations of CB contradict with the biological one
5 marks
biological explanations: genes
AO1:
research on twins- identical (MZ) more likely to be crims then non identica; (DZ)
MAOA gene and the defective version (MAOA-L)
defective CDH13 found alongside defective MAOA gene
AO3:
hand brunner
genes can be applied to reduce CB by using anger management
-henwood meta analysis
AO2:
anger management used to modify the role of genes