Addiction - Biological Approach - Gambling
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- Created on: 05-03-13 14:06
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- Biological Approach - Gambling
- AO1
- Initiation - evidence of genetic transmission of gambling in men (Shah et al 2005); first degree relatives of gamblers more likely to gamble than distant relatives.
- Maintenance- pathological gambling associated with underactive pituitary-adrenal system. individual difference in optimal amounts of stimulation
- Poor boredom tolerance may contribute to repetitive gambling
- Evaluation
- Can explain individual differences in gambling addiction through diathesis-stress model
- Biological approach ignores importance of external factors in development of gambling addiction
- Cannot explain why some types of gambling are more addictive than others
- Sensation seeking explains racetrack gambling but not cafe gambling
- Biological explanations are reductionist
- AO1
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