PSY3190 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Biopsychosocial Model, Unconscious Mind, Reinforcement
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Definition: the psychological component of the bio/psycho/social model explores the impact of psychodynamic forces, learning, motivation, interpersonal interactions and personality on the individuals substance use behaviours. Suggest that suds are a learned response to internal or external stimuli: the process of learning begins at the moment of birth. Life experiences might either be positive or negative. In this interpersonal matrix the individual is exposed to substance-use cues of various incentives which offer opportunities to engage in experimental substance use. Substance induced pleasure reinforces the learning process and forestalls withdrawal distress, both of which then encourage further learning process and forestalls withdrawal distress, both of which then encourage further substance use. Individuals will attempt to justify otherwise unacceptable behaviour through cognitive justifications or rationalisation. Individuals who use minimisation as a defence will either consciously or unconsciously reduce the incidence of a socially unacceptable behaviour, or its effects on others.
