PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Four Loko, The First Three Years, Developmental Psychology

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1XX3
• Professor: Christopher Teeter

Document Summary

Developmental psychologists examine the link between genetics and the environment in human development. A developmental psychologist may look at the four loko effect by looking at whether there is a predisposition to drinking alcohol. Alcoholism runs through families so some people may have an increased chance of becoming an alcoholic. These researchers at uc want to answer this question, so they bring people into the lab and get them drunk. Test the drunk participants on a series of motor coordination tasks before and after drinking alcohol. One group of people will have a very high response to alcohol less likely to become an alcoholic. Other group will have low response to alcohol can naturally tolerate it and is more likely to become an alcoholic. So maybe all the individuals who suffered from the four loko overdose were these alcohol lightweights.