PSYCH 2NF3 Chapter Notes - Chapter chap28.3: Alcohol And Health, Relative Risk, Thalamus
14 Apr 2018
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Study done on 12,000 young adults significant relationship between alcohol use and sexual risk taking was found even after controls were applied for age, education and family income correlational memory. Acute effects on memory vary with dose and task difficulty. At low doses, memory deficits are based more on expectation than on the quantity of alcohol actually consumed. Under high-stress conditions, alcohol may enhance performance by minimizing the damaging effects of anxiety. High doses of alcohol rapidly consumed may produce total amnesia for events that occur during intoxication, despite behaving normally blackout occurs in about 25% of social drinkers. Alcohol is involved in about half of high way deaths. Clear statistical relationship between bac and the relative risk for an accident has been reported - at. Bac lower than . 05% the chances of having an accident are about the same as for nondrinking drivers but between . 05%-. 10% the curve rises steeply to seven times the nondrinking rate.
