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Personal Factors That Influence the Use and Abuse of Alcohol

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Personal factors that influence the use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs are things such as personality traits and personal response to stress.


Definitions:

Arousal

A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli.

Mental Resources

Cognitive capacities and energy available to an individual for executing tasks, processing information, and making decisions.

Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

Inattentional Blindness

The phenomenon where an individual fails to perceive an unexpected stimulus that is in plain sight, due to focusing attention on another task, event, or object.

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