Psychology A-level: Impulsive Control Disorder

What are the two symptoms of Impulsive Control Disorder?

• Impulsive act leads to tension

• long-lived high pleasure

• Impulsive act leads to pleasure

• high pleasure lead to distress

Kleptomania is a recurrent, irresistible urge to (a)  

Kleptomania Symptom Assessment Scale (K-SAS) is a measure to assess changes in the severity of symptoms over time

What are the 3 requirements for the respondent to consider?

• beliefs

• thoughts

• feelings

• actions

The biological explanation of ICD is that the septal region and nucleus accumbens

• each has a high concentration of (a)   receptors related to reward/reinforcement

According to the Behavioural explanation: positive reinforcement, What is the Skinner's theory?

• Behavior which is rewarded tends to die out

• Behavior which is ignored tends to be reinforced
• Behavior which is punished tends to be repeated
• Behavior which is rewarded tends to be repeated

Miller's feeling-state theory is the cognitive explanation of ICD.

(a)   defined as when we are in a certain emotional state we begin to retrieve memories from the last time we were in the same state

A study by Olds and Milner (1954) (behavioural explanation of ICD), the behaviour of rats was rewarded using electrical stimulation of the reward pathways in the brain.

What is the result of the study?

• Rats developed a fear response to the electrical stimulation
• Rats showed no change in behavior after the electrical stimulation
• Rats exhibited compulsive lever-pressing behavior

• Rats exhibited aggressive behavior towards each other

In a study by Olds and Milner (1954) placed rats into a Skinner box (where they had access to a lever).

What is the Conditioned Stimulus (CS)?

• electrical stimulation of the septal region and nucleus accumbens

• seeing the lever

• 'high' feeling