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Undergraduate Psychology (Individual Differences) Flashcards on Griffiths, created by mad-megz165 on 12/04/2013.
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INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES Griffiths (1994) Gambling Aim + Method: examine the factors and variables relating to cognition and the gambling processes. Experimental observation (no variables manipulated)
PP's: 60 pp's (44 male, 16 female) recruited via a newspaper advert at Plymouth University. 30 (29m, 1f) regular gamblers, 30 not (15m, 15w).
All regulars and non were randomly allocated "thinking aloud" or not conditions. Those in the thinking condition had to continuously report everything they were thinking.
Findings: RG had a higher playing rate of 8 gambles per min; NRG had 6. RG who though aloud had a lower win rate and made fewer gambles than other groups.
There were NO differences in the amount of total winnings between those who thought aloud and those who didn't.
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