How Computer Addiction Works Obsessively checking e-mail. Playing online games for 12 hours or more at a time. Placing more value on chat-room friends than real friends. Neglecting family‚ work and even personal health and hygiene. These are all symptoms of a new form of addictionthat has surfaced only in recent years: computer addiction. Creating a single definition for computer addiction is difficult because the term actually covers a wide spectrum of addictions. Few people are literally addicted
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Computer addiction is a mental illness which causes the excessive use of computers to the extent that it interferes with daily life. Excessive use may explain problems in social interaction‚ mood‚ personality‚ work ethic‚ relationships‚ thought processes‚ or sleep deprivation. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders does not include a diagnosis for such a disease. The term ′computer addiction′ originated long before the Internet. Some people develop bad habits in their computer
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(IJACSA) International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications‚ Vol. 2‚ No.10‚ 2011 Study of Indian Banks Websites for Cyber Crime Safety Mechanism Susheel Chandra Bhatt Durgesh Pant Research Scholar‚ Computer Science department Kumaun University‚ Nainital‚ Uttarakhand‚ India Prof. & Director‚ School of Computer Science & IT Uttarakhand Open University Dehradun Campus‚ Dehradun‚ Uttarakhand‚ India Abstract—The human society has undergone tremendous changes from
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main factors of causing overuse of the internet‚ addiction and the lack of a daily schedule‚ respectively. Internet addiction can directly lead to unrestrained use of internet‚ which is the most remarkable root cause. The symptoms of internet addiction are similar with that of other addictions‚ including physical and emotional dependency. As a result‚ it is challenging to give up smoking‚ drug and alcohol abuse as well as the internet addiction. Compulsive internet use has become epidemic among
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Drug Addiction Drug addiction is a dependence on an illegal drug or medication. Many people confuse it with drug dependency‚ which is when a person needs a drug to function normally. The difference between drug addiction and drug dependence is drug dependence is when a person needs a drug to function normally‚ like some blood pressure medications can cause a physical dependence‚ but the person is not addicted to the drug. A person can have a physical dependence‚ but not be addicted. Many scientist
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In an unregulated cyber world‚ violence and pornography can bring serious consequences for children. And the intention in promoting so-called global Internet freedom was actually to help people get around barriers in cyberspace. But no country can afford to make the Internet absolutely free. Anyhow‚ it is quite obvious that regulation/controlling/censoring Internet for kids in some aspects is possible. People shouldn’t estimate this act as a crime against the freedom‚ but as a freedom from crime
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numerous ways. Like in every‚ nation money has placed a big part on everybody’s life. Without a stable economy‚ many problems will arise. Drugs overall‚ have created countless problems towards the economy. In fact‚ an article called “How do drugs effect society” by Marie. In this article she states "In 2000‚ 161 Billion‚ $ 100 billion in lost productivity‚ $12.9 billion in healthcare costs‚ $35 billion in other coasts‚ such as agencies that work to stop drug use." Overall‚ a lot of money has been
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Phobias and Addictions Briana Lee PSYC/300 June 14‚ 2011 Kaisa Freeman Phobias and Addictions Two emotional difficulties that learning theorists can account for are phobias and addictions. Through the use of both operant and classical conditioning‚ theorist may one day be able to understand phobias and addictions and guide sufferers to a place of better mental health. At the moment‚ theorists believe that sufferers are at the point of making irrational choices. Theorists hope is that
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developing Facebook addiction‚ something they attribute to the social nature of Facebook. Dr Mark D Griffiths‚ Professor of Gambling Studies in the International Gaming Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University in the UK‚ writes a response to the study in the same issue of the journal. In a personal blog about his response‚ he says that while he had no problem with the study by Andraessen and colleagues‚ he wished to comment more widely on doing research into Facebook addiction. Griffiths says
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Phobias and Addictions PSYCH/300 December 17‚ 2010 Abstract The works and research of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner‚ the leader in behaviorism‚ help to illuminate and deepen the knowledge of how classical and operant conditioning‚ play an important role in the treatment of phobias and addictions. Phobias have a wide range of inflictions and limitations ranging from mild and moderate to severe. Addictions vary within themselves as well‚ from mild cases to those far more
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