The Recommended Solution for Alcoholism Usually Includes Some Type of Treatment

question 89

Multiple Choice

The recommended solution for alcoholism usually includes some type of treatment and possibly hospitalization.In contrast,the use of crack cocaine is legally punished.The difference may be explained by the fact that alcoholism has beenand crack cocaine use has not.

• A)medicalized
• B)social constructed
• C)contextualized
• D)normalized

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Definitions:

Long-Term Potentiation

An increase in synaptic strength following high-frequency stimulation of a chemical synapse, important for learning and memory.

Synaptic Firing Potential

The likelihood or ability of neurons to transmit an electrical or chemical signal across the synapse to another neuron.

Priming

The psychological phenomenon in which exposure to a stimulus influences the response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus.