studies

• What was Young(2007) procedure?

  • 114 participants
  • online CBT sessions
  • 3rd,8th,12th session- filled in questionnaires to measure how well cbt was working
  • another questionnaire 6 months after finishing cbt
• What was Young’s aim?

  wanted to investigate the effectiveness of using CBT for internet addictions
• Strengths for Capsi et al

  • lots of scientific evidence to support
  • can explain why only some become addicts when many people try substances
• Weakness for Capsi et al?

  • Reductionist
  • difficult to find a single gene that explain where genes come from
• What we’re the findings of Youngs study?

  • the main problem caused for males because of there addiction was online pornography
  • main problem for women because of their addiction was online chat rooms
• what was Capsi et al‘s aim?

  investigate why stressful life events lead to depression in some people and not others
• What was Capsi et al’s procedure?

  • 847 participants
  • divided into three groups depending on variation of 5-HTT gene ( 2 short version, 1 long and 1 short version, 2 long )
  • complete questionnaire about life events between 21st and 26th birthday
  • complete questionnaire about symptoms of depression a year before their 26th birthday
• Whag did Capsi et al find?

  • participants with 1 short version of the 5-HTT gene and have been through stressful life events between 21-26 showed increase symptoms of depression
  • people with short version of gene more likely to get diagnosed with depression that with long version of gene
• What were weaknesses of Capsi et al?

  • used questionnaires which makes study lack reliability as people could lie
• what are strengths of Capsi et al?

  Had 847 participants which makes study generalisable as we can represent it to wider population
• evaluation of congnitive explanation for depression?

  strengths: takes into account both nature and nurture and has practical applications (eg CBT)

  weakness: no cause and effect, unclear if irrational thoughts are the cause of depression or vice versa

  -not all types of depression can be explained by this (post-natal)
• symptoms of substance addictions

  • tolerance to substance
  • ignoring that it’s harmful to you
  • stopping is difficult
• symptoms of behavioural addictions

  • do activity often or doing something more ‘risky’
  • reducing it is difficult
  • spends more time doing activity than other things they use to enjoy
  • spending money that they don’t have
  • not seeing family and friends often