PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Menopause, Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Twin Study
12 Jul 2016
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Understand how alcohol use & drinking compromise health. Explain how smoking is harmful & what factors influence smoking. Behaviour practiced by individual that undermines health. Many of these behaviours share a window of vulnerability in adolescence: drinking to excess, smoking, using illicit drugs, having unsafe sex, using risk-taking behaviours. Image of these behaviours as cool : cultural influences change over time, https. Substance abuse of all kinds predicted by some of the factors, such as parental conflict, low self-control, low self-esteem, lower ses. May include physical dependence: body adjusts to substance & incorporates its use into normal functioning of body"s tissues. Tolerance: larger doses needed to produce same effects. Craving: strong desire to engage in behaviour or consume substance, conditioning process involved, so that environmental cues trigger intense desire. Addiction: person has become physically or psychologically dependent on substance following use over period of time.
