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    Computer Addiction

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    How Computer Addiction Works Obsessively checking e-mail. Playing online games for 12 hours or more at a time. Placing more value on chat-room friends than real friends. Neglecting family‚ work and even personal health and hygiene. These are all symptoms of a new form of addictionthat has surfaced only in recent years: computer addiction. Creating a single definition for computer addiction is difficult because the term actually covers a wide spectrum of addictions. Few people are literally addicted

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    Internet Addiction

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    teens and Internet addiction Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is a theorized disorder originally made as a satirical hoax by Ivan Goldberg‚ M.D.‚ in 1995. He took pathological gambling as diagnosed by the DSM-IV as his model for the spoofed description. Although IAD was meant to be a hoax‚ it is promoted as a real condition by some supporters. Supporters often divide IAD into subtypes by activity‚ such as pornography‚ overwhelming and immoderate gaming‚ inappropriate involvement in online social

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    Phobias and Addiction

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    Phobias and Addiction Rachael Thomas PSY/300 January 26‚ 2014 Professor Chung Phobias and Addiction Webster Dictionary defines phobia as “a persistent‚ irrational fear of a specific object‚ activity‚ or situation that leads to compelling desire to avoid it” ("PHOBIA‚" n.d) Whereas Addiction is defined as “the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or something that is psychologically or physical habit-forming‚ as narcotics‚ to such extent its cessation causes severe trauma” ("addiciton‚"

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    psychology of addiction

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    Addiction: “the number one health problem in America” the most common psychiatric problem on the planet In the past‚ the focus of treatment was on the absence of the treatment‚ but now it is on moderation. Reasons of using substances: to aid religious practices to explore the self to alter moods to treat disease to promote and enhance social interaction sharing drugs can be intimate like sharing food/coffee‚ etc. to enhance sensory experience and pleasure to stimulate artistic

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    Addiction to Internet

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    English 1002: College Writing II Dr. Cynthia Andrzejczyk Addiction to Internet In the text The Globalization of Addiction‚ Bruce Alexander emphasizes the four different types of addiction (Addiction1‚ Addiction2‚ Addicition3‚ and Addiction4)‚ which include behavioral disorders that apply to habitual uses of technology including the Internet‚ video games‚ and other modern technological gadgets. The traditional definition of addiction in the Oxford English Dictionary “Humans beings often undergo

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    Understanding Addiction

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    Understanding Addiction Limestone College Abstract As early as 1939 with the publication of the first edition of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous the medical community was aware that addiction was more than a moral shortcoming. In the first addition of the book in the chapter The Doctor’s Opinion‚ Dr. William Silkworth (1939) wrote the following‚ “We believe‚ and so suggested a few years ago‚ that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the

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    Phobias and Addiction

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    Audriana Rogers Phobias and Addiction Paper Psy 300 Instructor: Shane Williamson July 8th 2013 We have to ask ourselves what does phobia or addiction has to do with classical and operant conditioning. In this paper I will explain why how phobias can be developed through classical conditioning and operant conditioning as well as: O Explore how addictions can be developed through operant conditioning. O Distinguish between classical and operant conditioning. O Explain what extinction means

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    Phobias and Addictions

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    Phobias and Addictions Briana Lee PSYC/300 June 14‚ 2011 Kaisa Freeman Phobias and Addictions Two emotional difficulties that learning theorists can account for are phobias and addictions. Through the use of both operant and classical conditioning‚ theorist may one day be able to understand phobias and addictions and guide sufferers to a place of better mental health. At the moment‚ theorists believe that sufferers are at the point of making irrational choices. Theorists hope is that

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    Is Addiction A Disease

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    IS ADDICTION A DISEASE? Drug agencies in the world have struggled for legitimacy in the field of medicine addiction. Drug abuse has become a common norm in the society today. Drug addiction is a chronic brain disease that causes uncontrollable drug seeking and use despite its negative consequences on the addict. Although the decision to take drugs is voluntary for many individuals‚ the brain changes that over a period of time. It hampers a person’s ability to resist his/her impulses to take drugs;

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    Exercise Addiction

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    become an addiction. Exercise addiction has many of the same characteristics seen drug addiction such as: tolerance withdrawal‚ lack of control‚ intention effects‚ time‚ reduction in other activities‚ and continuance. Researchers have developed conceptually sound diagnostic criteria for exercise dependence‚ but have yet to determine a suitably convincing mechanism for its onset. In order to determine what type of interventions would be effective for treating or overcoming exercise addiction‚ researchers

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