When alcohol is consumed it attacks and impairs a variety of cognitive processes (Norton & Halay, 2001). Some of these cognitive processes include: executive decision making, impulse control, modification of emotion, and future preparation (Norton et al., 2001). The focus of this Research Paper will be to examine the cognitive effects of alcohol consumption and any correlations between impulse control (impulsivity) and alcohol consumption. Research studies have shown that alcohol use disrupts the neurocognitive processes involved in self-regulation and is associated with a high level of behavioral disinhibition, which is characteristic of the personality trait impulsivity (Noel, Tomberg, Verbanck & Campanella, 2010).
The construct of the personality trait impulsivity is not firmly defined. Behavioral disinhibition and lack of control are used within the construct of impulsivity (Dick et al., 2010).
Impulsive behavior may stem from a variety of processes involving personality. The nature of these personality processes have not been consistently agreed upon. The construct of impulsivity includes personality processes such as: sensation seeking, risk taking, unreliability, novelty seeking, susceptibility to boredom, boldness, unorderliness, and the need for adventure (Depue & Collins, 1999). Data has shown there is no one single facet of personality that can explain impulsive behavior in its entirety (Dick et al., 2010).
There are five facets to impulsive behavior described in past models. These five facets are related to each other moderately and consist of a group of heterogeneous traits (Cyders & Smith, 2007). These five facets include: positive urgency, negative urgency, lack of planning, lack of perseverance, and sensat...
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II. The hysterical style’s primary mode of cognition facilitates repression. They lack objectivity and experience the general world as romantic, displaying affective liability. Hysterical people are overly subjective and generally view the world with a romantic, sentimental attitude. Their unfocused mode of cognition influences them to construct idealized recollections of people and objects. The impulsive character is a mixed population. This population is included of psychopathic characters, passive-neurotics, narcissistic characters, alcoholics, and substance abusers. Impulsive people typically have few interests, values, and goals. They rarely become emotionally involved with others. Impulsive people experience their behaviors as not completely deliberate and unintentional. Unlike the first two styles, these two are completely different from one another. You have one where they are very nice and have positive attitude towards the world because they block out most bad memories and try to not live in ...
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Using fear, while not aggressively, Silveri highlights the fact that excessive alcohol consumption is the third leading leading cause of preventable death. The author discusses this topic in a way that seems to be to scare anybody she is trying to convince. A mother reading this could worry about her daughter, or a young man in college who drinks often could take his drinking habits far more seriously after reading something like that. Also, ending the article on an optimistic note, she allows the reader to have some hope. Silveri mentions the reduction of maladaptive alcohol use through better recognition of the negative tendencies that comes with alcohol abuse in adolescents. (Adolescent Brain Development and Underage Drinking in the United States: Identifying Risks of Alcohol Use in College
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In 1902, a physician by the name of Sir George F. published a series of lectures to the Royal College of Physicians in England in which he described a group of impulsive children with significant behavioral problems, caused by a genetic dysfunction and not by poor child rearing?children who today would be easily recognized as having ADHD (NIMH 1). Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder or (ADHD) is a developmental disorder characterized by distractibility, hyperactivity, impulsivity, and an inability to remain focused on tasks or activities. ADHD afflicts an estimated 3-9% of children, with symptoms usually appearing by the age of seven. Some key characteristics of the disorder include a person who:
Drinking alcohol is associated with many adverse health problems in the short and long-term. These include cancer, stroke, heart disease, miscarriage, premature birth and unintentional injuries. Despite the fact that alcohol brings many negative impacts, many people still choose to drink and do not overcome their drinking habit. They have been successfully seduced by alcohol until drinking has become their addiction. However, some of them try to quit drinking, but they still cannot break the addiction. Basically, quitting alcohol is difficult and almost impossible for them because of brain-craving, lack of belief and support, and weak willpower.
Alcohol is something that people use to help with multiply different things and some studies have shown that alcohol may help protect our bodies from cardiovascular disease. Alcohol does have side effects to our health the surroundings around us and can cause violence, vehicle crashes and even suicide. Alcohol does have an effect on people that many social drinkers may not realize. Many people usually have tried alcohol around 13 years of age and high school students consume more wine coolers that are sold in the U.S. and they drink more than 1 billion beers a year. To understand the effects of alcohol, it begins with the brain. It is a curiosity as to why people feel the need to drink and drive. The way the brain works while influenced with alcohol has always fascinated me. Drinking and driving is one of the biggest decisions that alcohol leads to. The National Public Services Research Institute (NHTSA) did a study on 600 people who admitted driving while under the influence of alcohol. They described in detail the decisions they made leading up to the occurrence of driving while impaired like whether to take part in a drinking event, how to get to the event, how much to drink, and how to get home. The people being interviewed revealed more than 2,000 individual decisions that led to alcohol impaired driving. The decisions were then broken down into several categories as shown on the graph attached. Little is known as to what leads people to continue to drinking and driving. But as research shows, people do think, prior to drinking, how they will get home. It’s after they have already had been drinking that they decide to get behind the wheel.
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