AQA Psychology AUnit 4 Addiction

Three Sections

1. Models of addictive behaviour2. Vulnerability to addictive behaviour3. Reducing addictive behaviour

For each of these we look at the point they are making, the evidence and the evaluation.

Models of addictive behaviour

For each of the models that are on the left hand side we look at them in three stages in relation to addictive behaviour. That is the initiation, the maintenance and the relapse. We use the examples of Smoking and Gambling for each of them.

InitiationMaintenanceRelapse

BiologicalLearningCognitive

Vulnerability to addictive behaviour

The first part is the risk factors that make someone vulnerable to an addictive behaviour. These are:

Stress, peers, personality and age

The second part is Media influences

Reducing addictive behaviour

The first part is the Theory of Planned Behaviour

The second part is Interventions for reducing addictive behaviour. These are:

Biological

Psychological

Public Health Interventions