Lesson 29: Alcohol and You - Slide 26
Alcohol’s Effects On Mental Functioning
- Five areas of mental ability are consistently
damaged by chronic alcohol abuse:
- Memory formation: reduces the ability
to form new memories
- Abstract thinking: reduces the ability to think in ways not directly tied to concrete things such as size, color, and shape
- Problem solving: causes people to get stuck in a particular mode of problem solving and to take a lot longer to get a solution. They are unable to switch strategies
Notes:
Pg. 43, “Buzzed, The Straight Facts About The Most Used And Abused Drugs From Alcohol To Ecstasy, Second Edition” Cynthia Kuhn, Ph.D., Scott Swartzwelder,Ph.D. and Wilkie Wilson, Ph.D., W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2003
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