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Understanding Obsessions and Addictions: Insights into Normal Behavior

Explore how obsessions and addictions shed light on normal behavior. Learn about the factors influencing behavior and the intersection of OCD and addiction tendencies. Discover the impact of off-line/on-line controls and addictive substances or activities.

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Understanding Obsessions and Addictions: Insights into Normal Behavior

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  1. Obsessions and addictions – what do they tell us about normal behaviour? FREDERICK TOATES

  2. S – R link Stimulus Response CNS (a) Stimulus S – R link Response CNS (b) State Cognition Stimulus S – R link Response (c) CNS State

  3. Changing Weight • The properties of behaviour depend upon the particular relative weight attached to the factors. • The relative weight of these factors that is necessary for optimal performance differs according to circumstances. • Changing performance under changing conditions often reflects such a shift; and • Under sub-optimal conditions the weight distorts, such as to lead to behavioural pathology.

  4. Factors that Change the Weight of Off-line/On-line Controls • Development • Learning • Phylogeny • Brain damage • Chemical influences

  5. A sequence of OCD logic • The photographer must have been close to Hudson because the photo was a “close up” • So the photographer himself might have been contaminated. • So, when he developed the negative, he could have contaminated it. • The negative was in contact with the print of the photograph and so could have contaminated it. • The man in charge of printing the newspaper used the photograph, and so, he could have passed its contamination on to the newspaper’s printer. • The printing press could have passed the contamination on to the picture in every newspaper. • So, when I touched the newspaper, I too might have been contaminated.

  6. Addictive substances/activities • Food • Sex • Drugs • Alcohol • Heroin • Cocaine • Nicotine • Gambling • Shopping • Internet • Oil

  7. Comparison of OCD and addiction

  8. AVOID T E N D E N C Y DISTANCE T E N D E N C Y AVOID DISTANCE APPROACH APPROACH

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