Celebrity Addictions
This British singer of Rehab struggled with alcohol and drug addiction.
Who is Amy Winehouse?
These are the three psychological approaches we have studied this term: cognitive, behavioural, and biological.
What are the three approaches we have covered this term?
This cognitive theory focuses on thoughts, feelings/emotions and behaviours.
What is CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Theory)?
They are Social Learning, Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning.
What are the three major types of behavioural learning?
This rapper overcame prescription drug addiction and later released the album Recovery.
Who is Eminem?
This psychological approach focuses on how thoughts, beliefs, and thinking patterns influence behaviour.
What is the cognitive approach?
He was the psychologist who first discovered Cognitive Behaviour Theory when looking at depression.
Who was Aaron Beck?
In this experiment, children copied adult behaviour after watching them act aggressively or calmly toward a toy called a Bobo Doll.
What is Bandura's bobo doll experiment?
Known as “The King of Rock and Roll,” this celebrity became dependent on prescription medications.
Who is Elvis Presley?
This approach explains behaviour as something learned through conditioning, rewards, punishment, and observation.
What is the behavioural approach?
This theory suggests people may use drugs or alcohol to cope with stress, trauma, anxiety, or depression when they do not have healthier ways to manage their feelings.
What is Self-Medication Theory?
This theory explains behaviour as being shaped by rewards and punishments, where rewarded behaviours are more likely to be repeated.
What is B.F. Skinner’s operant conditioning theory?
Before starring as Iron Man in the Marvel films, this actor battled drug addiction and spent time in jail.
Who is Robert Downey Jnr?
This approach looks at the role of the brain, genetics, hormones, and neurotransmitters in behaviour.
What is the biological approach?
In Griffiths’ 1994 fruit machine study, gamblers had to say every thought out loud while they were playing.
What is the think aloud technique?
Attention, memory, imitation, and motivation are the four key concepts of this behavioural theory.
What is Social Learning Theory?
This rapper and actor, famous for songs like X Gon’ Give It to Ya, openly struggled with addiction throughout his life.
Who is DMX?
Because no single approach can fully explain all human behaviour.
Why are there different approaches in psychology?
Griffiths found that regular gamblers often saw losing situations as “near wins” and produced more irrational thoughts than non-regular gamblers.
What were the findings of Griffiths’ 1994 fruit machine study?
In this experiment, dogs learned to salivate to a neutral stimulus (like a bell) after it was repeatedly paired with food, showing that behaviour can be learned through association.
What is Pavlov’s classical conditioning experiment?