PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Barbiturate, Nicotine, Sigmund Freud
25 Jan 2017
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Sigmund freud: born in 1856 and died in 1939. In 1900, he published one of a few books called (cid:862)i(cid:374)terpretatio(cid:374) of drea(cid:373)s(cid:863). Fou(cid:374)der of psychoa(cid:374)alytic psychology (cid:449)hich talked a lot about the subconsciousness. First individual who talked about what our dreams really mean. Looked at patterns of sleep and more so the underlying meaning of dreams. It is our memory system that stores images and these thoughts in different areas of the brain. Depressants: reduce the neural activity, slow body functions down, loose reaction time include alcohol (shrink your brain), barbiturates (depresses cns and will also reduce anxiety, but impairs judgments), opiates: reduce the tunnels for pain closes (cid:862)gate(cid:863), reduces anxiety. Stimulants: amphetamines, cocaine, caffeine, nicotine; speed up cns, addictive drugs, and they are a mood changer. Hallucinates: marijuana, lsd, harbiturates; very powerful and makes people see things that are(cid:374)"t there. Ca(cid:374) co(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:374)ce people to do thi(cid:374)gs that are stupid a(cid:374)d they should(cid:374)"t do.
