Describe how children with ADHD might be at risk for developing substance abuse in adolescence
What will be an ideal response?
• Research has shown that while concerns have been expressed regarding stimulant use in adolescents leading to drug abuse, the opposite is true. Stimulant medication actually reduces the likelihood of substance abuse.
• For adolescents who do develop substance abuse issues, the most common drug is marijuana, although other substances can be abused.
• Speculation about this link could include the role of impulsivity and risk-taking behavior as well as the tendency to associate with peers with similar attributes.
• Another speculation is that substances help normalize the adolescent's emotions and behaviors and therefore addiction or abuse becomes more likely.
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a. interpersonal group b. cognitive-behavioral c. psychoanalytic d. Gestalt e. process debriefing
When the lateral hypothalamus of a rat is destroyed, it may most likely:
A) eat until it doubles in size. B) search frantically for food. C) become hyperphagic. D) become aphagic.
Pavlov believed that his work on the conditioned reflex discovered the physiological mechanism for what for centuries had been called ____ by philosophers and psychologists.
a. associationism b. behaviorism c. functionalism d. structuralism
Although you smelled the distinct odors of a pot of cabbage cooking on the stove when you first entered the kitchen, you now no longer smell these odors after being in the kitchen for thirty minutes due to the process of sensory gating
Indicate whether the statement is true or false