PSY 1101 Chapter 7: States of Consciousness Psychoactive Drugs Chart

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Slows brain activity that controls judgements and inhibitions, thus enlivening drinker. Relaxes drinker by slow sympathetic nervous system activity. Reaction slows, speech slurs, skilled performance deteriorates. Paired with sleep deprivation lead to alcohol-related accidents. Girls and young women, who have less of stomach enzyme that digests alcohol, more easily addicted than boys and young men. Women suffer lung, brain, and liver damage at less extreme consumption than men. Increases harmful as well as helpful opportunities. The urges you would feel if sober are the ones you will more likely act upon if intoxicated. Disrupts processing of recent experiences into long-term memories. Suppresses rem sleep, which helps fix day"s experience into permanent memory. Focuses attention on immediate situation and away from any future consequences. Effects stem both on alteration of brain activity as well as expectations (depending on society, cultures) In combination with alcohol, total depressive effect are lethal and cause death. Depress neural functioning; pupils constrict, breathing slows, user.