Effect of outcome on arousal: relation to gambling frequency and incentive
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- Algoma University Archives > Algoma University Theses collection > Psychology series > Effect of outcome on arousal: relation to gambling frequency and incentive
- Creator
- Skye A Berry
- Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 1.69 MB of textual records (PDF)
- General Material Designation
- Electronic record, Textual record
- Language(s)
- English
- Bibliographic Information
- Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.:, OSTMA-PSYC-Berry-Skye-A-20070402
- Descriptive Notes
- Audience: Undergraduate. -- Dissertation: Thesis (B. A.). -- Algoma University, 2007. -- Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for PSYC 4105. -- Includes figures, tables and questionnaires. -- Contents: Literature review / Thesis.
- Previous research has shown that frequent gamblers experience greater heart rate increases when winning than infrequent gamblers do. Male and female undergraduate students played a computer game of chance, with or without an incentive. Heart rate was measured to determine whether having an incentive affected arousal. The South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) was administered to identify frequent gamblers. It was hypothesized that there would be an interaction between the effect of the incentive whether the person was a frequent or infrequent gambler. Results were in the predicted direction but no significant differences between conditions were detected. This failure to replicate previous findings will be discussed.