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This can be achieved by looking at some of the psychological models that help explain how psychological factors such as emotions, behavior, and thoughts all play a big role in the smoking cessation context.... The self-regulatory model of illness cognition and behavior states that stimuli within a patient result in a perception of the symptoms and influences the way the patient interprets what such symptoms mean (Curry and McBride, 1994....
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The positive role of a family is demonstrated if all family members offer support and strength to one another such that fighting an addictive behavior is a collective responsibility.... Any deviation from this normalness causes inappropriate response and behavior in an organism.... That is, addicts of a particular substance develop the behavior after being exposed to the substance over some time.... Drug addiction is an example of a behavior that not only affects an addict, but also persons whom the addict interacts with....
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In order to identify how drugs alter user's behavior, it is important to understand how brain functions after induction of drugs into human body.... These transmitters are produced by brain and replacing actual transmitters sends irregular messages to the whole body resulting in disturbed behavior.... Violent behavior and Drugs abuse It is important to note that use of drugs itself is an indication of unhealthy behavior.... Therefore, it can be said that use of drugs and display of violent behavior has a bidirectional relationship (Xue, Zimmerman, Cunningham, 2009; Mulvey et al....
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As of now, there is very little research into this aspect with reference to addictive behaviors like gambling.... Though many researchers argue similar pathogenesis in all addictive behaviours, research into this perspective is warranted.... Acute and chronic stress have been incriminated in the mechanism of development of addiction in all types of addictive behaviours.... In this essay, mechanisms involved in the development of addictive gambling will be elucidated through review of appropriate literature and with reference to pathophysiology of addiction of substances and alcohol....
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This case study describes behavior through the imperative to survive.... Through the theories that were posed by Charles Darwin on evolution, behavior can be examined for its commonalities in behavior between human beings have developed through years of adaptation to environmental stimulus.... According to Vuchinich, and Heather (2003), evolutionary psychology attempts to identify psychological mechanisms that underscore human behavior and the evolutionary development of those mechanisms....
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The paper 'Rationality in Food Decision Making' incorporates both the behavioural economics and psychological phenomenon to explain the three areas of food consumption by answering the following questions: Why and when do an individual choose the foods they do and etc.... This paper will, therefore, focus on three major areas in food consumption decision making in relation to behavioural economics.... or the past few years, researches on behavioural economics have increased tremendously with economists trying to find out the cause of so many misguided trends in food consumption....
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The others are RPT and Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment: Strategies for Self-Improvement and Change (SSC) which have commonly been used in treating addicts of substance abuse, ART to displace destructive behavior based on aggression, and T4C to correct criminogenic thinking.... Over the past, offenders have been identified to have cognition problems which were subject towards influencing their thinking and wrong behavior.... CBT programs, therefore, employ 'the behavioral learning techniques to alter the general adaptive behavior of offenders'....
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However, there are contrary opinions, which suggest that addiction is a bad habit, negative behavior, or the result of a lack of motivation (Lawn, 2011; Womer & Davis, 2013).... If a particular behavior contradicts these norms or appears to be foreign, society would judge the person differently from others.... People living with addiction face these judgments because their behavior is different from socially accepted norms (Link & Phelan, 2001; Stanbrook, 2012)....
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