PSY333H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Reinforcement
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People often smoking due to parental modelling, peer influence, advertising, personal characteristics. Ppl start to smoke to increase positive affect and decrease negative affect. The disease model: a theory that suggests that alcoholism is a disease resulting from the physical properties of alcohol (problem drinking) The tension reduction hypothesis: the hypothesis that people drink alcohol because of its tension-reducing properties. The self-awareness model: the theory that drinking makes people less self-aware because it inhibits the use of normal complex information-processing strategies, such as memory and information acquisition. The social learning model: this theory, when applied to drinking behaviour, proposes that people drink because they experience positive reinforcement for doing so or because that observe others drinking and model the behaviour. Alcohol myopia theory: a drinkers decreased ability to engage in insightful cognitive processing (more friendly or aggressive. Delta alcoholism: inability to abstain from alcohol. Gamma alcoholism: loss of control once drinking begins.
