AQA Psycholgy A unit 4 Addiction

1. AQA Psychology A
Unit 4 – Addiction

2. Three Sections
1. Models of addictive behaviour
2. Vulnerability to addictive behaviour
3. Reducing addictive behaviour
For each of these we look at the point they are
making, the evidence and the evaluation.

3. 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.
Initiation Maintenance Relapse
Biological
Learning
Cognitive

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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