PSYC 3230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Genetic Predisposition, Comorbidity, Reinforcement
26 Mar 2018
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What people expect to experience when they use drugs influences how they react to them (if expect to be less inhibited, will act less inhibited) Leads to initiation and continuation of substance use when a person anticipates that use will lead to positive effects. Expectancies develop before person actually uses drugs (parents and peers" drug use, advertisi(cid:374)g, etc) Triggered by cues (mood, environment, availability of drug) May be sign of impending relapse- so will want to target cravings in treatment. Media, family, peers can influence exposure to drugs. Level of parenting monitoring is important predictor of adolescent su. Exposure to drugs is a prerequisite for use of drugs. 2 prevailing views of people with drug addiction: moral weakness model of dependence personal failure of self control, disease model of dependence - caused by some underlying/biological process. Neither perspective adequately accounts for complexity of influences of. Ex: moral weakness leads to punishing/shunning those with sud.
