Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Executive Functions, Theta Wave, Oxycodone

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Meditation training people to self-regulate their attention and awareness. Psychoactive drugs: drugs that can alter our consciousness, and perceptions. They can alter our perception, increase our mood, calm us down, make us feel more alert, etc. Classified by action and effects they have on our bodies. 4 main categories of psychoactive drugs: depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens. Depressants are drugs that lower your body"s basic functions and neural activity, lower cns activity (decrease arousal/stimulation in areas of our brain) ex. Bp, decreased processing/reaction time (makes us act/think slowly), etc. Three categories: alcohol, barbiturates, and benzodiazepines: vasodilate at low, vasoconstrictor at high, the most popular depressant is alcohol. Think more slowly, disrupt rem sleep (and form memories: barbiturates used to induce sleep or reduce anxiety (calm them down) depress your. Not often prescribed due to negative side effects such as reduced memory, judgement and concentration, with alcohol can lead to death (most drugs w/ alcohol are bad)