PYC 1501 ASSIGNMENT 2

Question 1 You need to look carefully at this scenario in order to find the right answer. While the aim of the youth group leader may be to prevent drug abuse, that is not the aim of your presentation and therefore option 1 is not correct. The aim of your presentation is to provide information on the effect of drugs on behaviour. That is the area of interest and therefore option 3 is correct. Although the target audience is the youth n the community, this is however, not what the presentation is all about - therefore option 2 is not correct. Option 4 is not correct because options 1 and 2 are not correct. Question 2 The title of a presentation or essay should be a concise statement of what the presentation or essay is all about. The title of a presentation should therefore be a reflection of the aim of the presentation. In this case the effects of drugs on behaviour. For this reason, option 4 provides the correct answer. The youth leader has not asked the presenter to speak on the problems of drug abuse in general (option 3) or on the effects of drugs on state of consciousness (option 2). Although the youth leader hopes that providing information on the behavioural effects of drugs will prevent some people from taking drugs, the presentation is not on the prevention of drug abuse (option 1) as such. Question 3 People who drink alcohol may behave as if they are stimulated but alcohol actually depresses the central nervous system and relaxes inhibitions. Alcohol is therefore a central nervous system depressant and option 1 is correct. The other options are incorrect because cocaine is a stimulant, marijuana is a hallucinogen and option 4 cannot be correct because it includes two other incorrect options. If you did not get the answer right, you have not met assessment criterion 06 for learning opportunity LO.SEC.B-03. Question 4 Narcolepsy is the term used for symptoms of sleep that occur during wakefulness and is characterised by an overwhelming need to sleep. Option 1 therefore provides the correct answer. Option 2 is not correct because insomnia refers to an inability to sleep. The inability to move is a symptom of catalepsy and therefore option 3 is not correct. Sleep apnea (option 4) refers to the cessation of breathing during sleep and is also not a characteristic of narcolepsy. If you did not get this question right, you have not met assessment criterion 04 in learning opportunity LO.SEC.B-03. Question 5 Dreaming occurs during D (desynchronised) sleep and therefore option 4 is the correct answer. Options 1, 2, and