PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Alcoholism
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Dopamine and motivation: broad concept, mechanism or flow of behaviour that can be directed in many different ways, motivation: the push to do , disorders of motivation, alcoholism, drug abuse, behavioural addictions (i. e. pathological gambling, compulsive sexual behaviours) Entire life becomes devoted to fulfilling that want: economic impact of substance abuse, australia: 55 billion/year, canada: 40 billion/year, us: 556 billion/year, biological underpinnings, everything psychological is simultaneously biological , system for motivating behaviour (cid:224) necessary for survival, no one theory can explain all of the data on motivation motivation is multiply determined, contemporary knowledge, regional, systemic. Self reports from icss patients: patient b 19 (heath 1970, no subjective descriptions of pleasure resulting from stimulation, sexual arousal but no sexual satisfaction, female patient (portenoy 1986, though sexual arousal was prominent, no orgasm occurred , she described erotic sensations often intermixed with an undercurrent of anxiety , kent berridge.
