Discuss the use of hallucinogenic drugs among adolescents.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Hallucinogenics give rise to perceptual distortions called hallucinations, which sometimes can be so strong as to be confused with reality. Marijuana, Ecstasy, LSD, and PCP are hallucinogenic drugs. Marijuana, which is typically smoked, helps users relax, elevates their mood, increases sensory awareness, and can induce visual hallucinations, for example, time seeming to slow down. Marijuana carries health risks such as impairing the perceptual-motor coordination and short-term memory. Regular users may experience withdrawal, which is a sign of addiction (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Ecstasy, a popular "party" drug, provides the boost of a stimulant and mild hallucinogenic effects. The combination appears to free users from inhibitions and awareness of the consequences of risky behavior, such as unprotected sex. Ecstasy can also impair working memory, increase anxiety, and lead to depression. LSD is the acronym for lysergic acid diethylamide, another hallucinogenic drug. High doses of hallucinogenics can impair coordination and judgment (driving while using hallucinogenic drugs poses grave risks), change the mood, and cause paranoid delusions.
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Research has suggested that a factor contributing to the development of some anxiety reactions is that
a. operant conditioning and preparedness work against each other. b. people apparently learn to avoid certain stimuli if they observe other people showing a strong fear response to those stimuli. c. some people are more prepared than others for emotional events. d. people need to experience emotional events themselves for those events to affect their lives in future.
_________ theory stresses the importance of the acquisition of gender identity and children's intrinsic motivations to behave in a gender-typical manner, focusing on the influence of children's active construction of gender knowledge on their behavior
a. Gender schema c. Social cognitive b. Cognitive-developmental d. Psychosocial
In a research study, it was observed that older students engaged in more spontaneous rehearsal than younger students, and when asked to identify pictures that had been shown to them fifteen seconds earlier, the older students showed significantly greater accuracy. This suggests that
a. performance on memory tasks is determined by age. b. performance on memory tasks is determined by genetics. c. there is a direct link between strategy use and performance on memory tasks. d. there is an indirect link between strategy use and performance on memory tasks.