PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Neural Adaptation, Mental Chronometry, Psychophysics
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Increasing amounts of alcohol cause inhibition of gaba relaxing effect. Can have contradictory effects: expectancy theory effects of alcohol on our expectations in particu- lar situations o. Tested experimentally by observing two groups of subjects. The second group consumed a placebo (non-alcoholic drink) that had the rim of the glass dipped in alcohol, so they thought they were consuming alcohol. Their behaviour was the same because of the expected effects of consuming alcohol. Explains contradictory effects: alcohol myopia theory alcohol impairs attention, causing very sim- ple responses to more complex situations o. Act on very small social cues (ie: can"t tell between friendship or sexual ad- vances) causing people to go to extremes o. Causes many social problems, ie: fatal car accidents, incapacitated rapes, drug-related rapes, etc. o. The first group consumed alcohol and the second group consumed no alco- o o hol.
