Mike Was Always Interested in Being Popular, So During His

question 107

Multiple Choice

Mike was always interested in being popular, so during his sophomore year in high school he began to use marijuana so he would fit in. After using it for little over a year, he began to need it to relax and also had to use more of it to get the same effect. He then started to use cocaine to get the same effect. He noticed that, when he was not under the influence of the drug, he felt irritable and anxious. When Mike found that he had to use more of the marijuana to get the same relaxing state, he was experiencing

• A) tolerance.
• B) reinforcement.
• C) loss of control.
• D) escalation.

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Definitions:

Conscience

An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

Surface Of Awareness

Refers to the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions that are readily accessible to an individual's conscious mind.

Unconscious Mind

A component of the mind that houses thoughts, memories, and desires not within the scope of conscious awareness, influencing behavior and decisions.

Collective Unconscious

In Jung’s theory, the most inaccessible layer of the unconscious, which contains the universal experiences of humankind.