PSYC 188 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behavioral Addiction, Problem Gambling, Allostasis
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Self-regulation- any effort by a human being to alter its own responses. A lot of stress but keep functioning, because of the stress cardiovascular system was outside the normal range (ex. Dick ch- one ends up with pathology and one doesnt) No pathology hedonic resonses are regulated in homeostatic way. 2 emotional processes in the domain of reward unconditioned stimuli nondependent (to drug etc) Standard pattern of affective dynamics produced by novel and repeated peak a then low peak of b (hight time then sad time ex. High then come down) vs dependent overinduldging- tolerance develops to a processes and b process gets bigger and bigger. Maintenance of apparent stability at a new pathological set point . Small challenge can lead to breakdown society is addicted to everything. Crime and economics can be linked to it. Many of them center around inability to self regulate as a person.
