NUTR 301 Lecture Notes - O. J. Simpson, Jean Piaget, Sigmund Freud
12 Mar 2014
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Cell phones and driving can handling one thing at a time. Addictions drug dependence (like it but can survive without) vs addiction. Don"t get addicted to cocaine addicted from dopamine (body sees get dopamine externally so body makes less of it and body wants more externally. What makes an addiction: when you don"t do it, you feel badly. Physical, emotional (happiness, love send messages), intellectual, motoric (handwriting, fidgeting, knitting,etc. gross motor-lifting. ) Many different types of psychology: industrial, business and consumer, environmental, engineering (access to wheelchairs in conference room, phone-easy to use, airplane design so pilot doesn"t make mistake), forensic (criminal profiling, emotional killing (oj simpson), child/adolescent, neuropsychology, sport, health, etc. All psychology tries to: describe the condition, explain what has accounted for it (why is he aggressive?, predict what is the prognosis, empirical evidence. Psychology: normal problems depression (can cross line), addiction (can cross line) Crossing the line normal to abnormal (1-24 beers per day)
