Factors affecting addictive behaviours
1) Give one piece of research that supports the idea that excessive use of the internet
is more common in those who have low self-esteem.
2) Give a piece of research that found that smokers tend to hang out with smokers
(giving a social context to the addiction).
3) Give a psychologist name who said that taking heroin could help give a person
social identity.
4)How important is attribution in explaining addictive behaviour ? Who said this and
what addiction was their study looking at ?
5)Who said that if a smoker saw themselves as ‘addicted’ that this would make a
behavioural change much harder ?
6) Give a piece of research that supports the social context of smoking in teenagers.
7) Why else may teenagers start to smoke ?