-Dugdale, David C.(2009). Alcohol Withdrawal. Medline Plus. Retrieved from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000764.htm on 18 Mar. 2010.
-Powell, Elizabeth (2004). Alcohol and Impulse Control. serendip. Retrieved from http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro04/web2/epoweel.html on 20 Mar. 2010.
-Parson, Tetyana (2003). Alcoholism and Its Effect on the Family. AllPsych Online. Retrieved from http:allpsych.com/journal/alcoholism/html on 19 Mar. 2010.
-Teague, Michael (2007). Your Health Today: Choices in a Changing Society. 2nd ed. Retrieved on 19 Mar. 2010.
-Teague, Michael, Sara L.C. Mackenzie, and David M. Rosenthal. Your Health Today: Choices in a Changing Society. Brief ed. Retrieved on 18 Mar. 2010.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
RJA #14a: Application Project Progress Report
1)My application project is going to be a research journal about the activities of two alcoholics, one is a father and the other is a son. Their actions will be compared and so will how they develop stages of alcoholism. This journal will be written as if I had a camera that permanently followed the subjects without them knowing of the cameras' presence.
2)I've done about half of the work with the journal going into halfway the final date of observation. I gave some background information of the subjects at the beginning of the journal with information such as their age, gender, and their father and son relationship and the purpose of the observations.
3)I still need to finish the other half of the journal reaching the final date, include a conclusion or my analysis, and the 300 word essay explaining how I used my sources for the journal.
2)I've done about half of the work with the journal going into halfway the final date of observation. I gave some background information of the subjects at the beginning of the journal with information such as their age, gender, and their father and son relationship and the purpose of the observations.
3)I still need to finish the other half of the journal reaching the final date, include a conclusion or my analysis, and the 300 word essay explaining how I used my sources for the journal.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
RJA #13c: Application Project Example
http://www.valdosta.edu/~jhummel/psy310/journal.htm
-An observation journal entry can give insight of a person that is close with an alcoholic such as a family member or close friend. The journal will be in typical format of a journal; date, place, name of subject, to the observations. In the journal, the movements and action of the subject should be noted followed by feelings and thoughts about those actions with a concluding thought at the very end.
-An observation journal entry can give insight of a person that is close with an alcoholic such as a family member or close friend. The journal will be in typical format of a journal; date, place, name of subject, to the observations. In the journal, the movements and action of the subject should be noted followed by feelings and thoughts about those actions with a concluding thought at the very end.
RJA #13b: Application Project Plan
The application will be a journal entry of a person observing a person becoming an alcoholic. The entries will show the stages of alcoholism and how each step effects the alcoholic itself and the people around him/her. The person observing the alcoholic will be like a ghost, that no one notices there, the ghost doesn't have a professional background and explain things as an average person. The ghost will follow the person that will become an alcoholic over the course of two months.
RJA #13a: Word Cloud
Sunday, April 18, 2010
RJA #12b: Field Research Report
Interview with Dr. Wu
Q-Out of all the people you see here, what is the ratio for young people, lets say under 21, and adults which are older than 21?
A-Off the top of my head, I would say every one out of four people that come here is a teenager.
Q-Are the substances users here, regardless of age, act the same way?
A-I would have to say yes, many of them of both age groups come in with shakes and sweats, some of them are really angry, addiction is addiction no matter on who it is to be honest.
Q-There are many alcohol deterring advertisements out there, but they all seem to focus on age, which seems not as efficient to me, what is your thought on this matter?
A-Alcohol, drug, and almost ANY addiction is a negative thing, and yes I have noticed that age seems to be important in these advertisements too, I have to agree that age should not be the focus for addiction deterrence.
Survey
Q-If alcohol was given to an adult, of age 21 and up, and given to a teenager, age 12 to 18, who would you trust more with the substance, the adult or the teenager, and why?
A-18: Adults are more mature than teenagers and are trusted more on an average daily basis anyways
A-6: Teenagers in the present are capable of being more responsible than adults, they maybe younger but the lack of age makes them have more fear of the law.
A-2: The answer is not clearly black and white, it really depends on the individuals that are observed
Q-What would be the difference if an adolescent drinking and an adult drinking was compared?
A-17: Adolescents who drink will mature into "bad" adults.
Q-Out of all the people you see here, what is the ratio for young people, lets say under 21, and adults which are older than 21?
A-Off the top of my head, I would say every one out of four people that come here is a teenager.
Q-Are the substances users here, regardless of age, act the same way?
A-I would have to say yes, many of them of both age groups come in with shakes and sweats, some of them are really angry, addiction is addiction no matter on who it is to be honest.
Q-There are many alcohol deterring advertisements out there, but they all seem to focus on age, which seems not as efficient to me, what is your thought on this matter?
A-Alcohol, drug, and almost ANY addiction is a negative thing, and yes I have noticed that age seems to be important in these advertisements too, I have to agree that age should not be the focus for addiction deterrence.
Survey
Q-If alcohol was given to an adult, of age 21 and up, and given to a teenager, age 12 to 18, who would you trust more with the substance, the adult or the teenager, and why?
A-18: Adults are more mature than teenagers and are trusted more on an average daily basis anyways
A-6: Teenagers in the present are capable of being more responsible than adults, they maybe younger but the lack of age makes them have more fear of the law.
A-2: The answer is not clearly black and white, it really depends on the individuals that are observed
Q-What would be the difference if an adolescent drinking and an adult drinking was compared?
A-17: Adolescents who drink will mature into "bad" adults.
RJA #12: Annotated Bibliography, Part 3
-Teague, Michael, Sara L.C. Mackenzie, and David M. Rosenthal. Your Health Today: Choices in a Changing Society. Brief ed. NYC: McGraw-Hill, 2007. Print
The authors explains the stages of alcoholism and people most prone to the stages. Pages 214-220 of the textbook gives an example of what may happen to people during their drinking and after drinking. The book was published by McGraw-Hill, a publisher trusted with publishing textbooks. The authors did not put in their opinions or bias into the text as the textbook shows merely facts. The book provides examples of daily occurrences when dealing with alcohol with few that are not commonly known.
-The Century Council. "Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities (National Statistics)." Web. 21 Mar. 2010
The author discusses the numbers of car accidents and fatalities of the accidents involved with alcohol in the year 2008. Roughly 32% of traffic fatalities were caused by alcohol, that 32% amounts to 11,773 out of 37,261 lives (The Century Council). In that year, it would mean one person would die every 45 minutes in a car accident due to alcohol in the United States after calculating it. The information given is the most up to date so far until the next alcohol related deaths census is conducted.
The authors explains the stages of alcoholism and people most prone to the stages. Pages 214-220 of the textbook gives an example of what may happen to people during their drinking and after drinking. The book was published by McGraw-Hill, a publisher trusted with publishing textbooks. The authors did not put in their opinions or bias into the text as the textbook shows merely facts. The book provides examples of daily occurrences when dealing with alcohol with few that are not commonly known.
-The Century Council. "Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities (National Statistics)." Web. 21 Mar. 2010
The author discusses the numbers of car accidents and fatalities of the accidents involved with alcohol in the year 2008. Roughly 32% of traffic fatalities were caused by alcohol, that 32% amounts to 11,773 out of 37,261 lives (The Century Council). In that year, it would mean one person would die every 45 minutes in a car accident due to alcohol in the United States after calculating it. The information given is the most up to date so far until the next alcohol related deaths census is conducted.
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