cognitive

Question 1

cognitive bias and gambking

Answer 1

when they win money. The bias towards thinking

Question 2

Imitation

Answer 2

addict is likely to experience anxiety following from childhood or trauma stress
alcohol is a depressant with relaxing effect used by people with anxiety whereas people with depression are more likely to use stimulants and people make rational devsiisons to manage emotional states

Question 3

maintenance

Answer 3

people may have poor coping styles so may continue to use alcohol to help manage stress which is known as maladaptive coping strategy
alcohol has fact acting effect of increasing self esteem and rescuing worry which reinforces dependnacy

Question 4

relapse

Answer 4

rebound effect the alcohol makes anxiety worse in the long term which leads to more being used to relieve feelings
this is accompanied with physical symptoms through the self medication process that Rhantziam 2995 stress of withdrawal with stress of original issues leading to the cycle of relapse

Question 5

exaggerations of ability

Answer 5

gambking - exaggerating wins and emphasises extent to how often a win is in reflection to how often a person bets

Question 6

gamblers fallacy

Answer 6

probability of something - keep losing must win

Question 7

near miss bias

Answer 7

griffiths, the near miss is better than missing at all

Question 8

illusions of control

Answer 8

more control than they have
more of skill than chance

Question 9

strength 1

Answer 9

practical explanations CBT

Question 10

strength 2

Answer 10

valid lost of evidence Groffiths

Question 11

weakness

Answer 11

doesn’t fully explain why it begins

Question 12

weakness 2

Answer 12

doesn’t account for biological or learning factors