IDIS 199 PRACTICE EXAMS 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔social risk avoidance - ✔✔determinant of adolescent typical behaviour
✔✔substance use - ✔✔use of psychoactive substances, including caffeine, alcohol,
cannabis, illicit drugs
✔✔substance misuse - ✔✔use of psychoactive substances in a way that causes
concern and o/or elevates the risk of reduced well being and poor mental health- regular
or excess use, binging, higher frequency than prescribed
✔✔substance use disorder - ✔✔clinically significant abuse or dependency which
includes psychological or physiological ( withdrawal or tolerance) aspects of an
addiction- worse physical health, failure to meet responsibilities...
✔✔mental health concerns and disorders - ✔✔substance use- feeder relationship with
worsening of mental health- which cause more reliance on subtances
✔✔cognition - ✔✔substance misuse associated with altered efficiency of brain
functions- thinking, perceiving and feeling
✔✔attention - ✔✔substance misuse associated with reduced sustained attention
distraction and errors
✔✔learning - ✔✔regular usage of cannabis and alcohol- poor university performance
and higher dropout rates
✔✔motivation - ✔✔low drive and low motivation associated with substance misuse (
regular cannabis use- a-motivational syndrome)
✔✔alcohol - ✔✔acts on CNS, depressant, slows down neural processes and
communication.- cuase disinhibition of normal behvaiour
✔✔binge drinking - ✔✔30% of students reported binge drinking ( 4 or more drinks for
females, 5 or more drinks for males)
✔✔blackouts - ✔✔29% of students reported blackout from drinking- temporar condition
that affects memory- sense of lost time
✔✔regret - ✔✔38% of students report doing something they regretted while drunk
✔✔injury - ✔✔18% of students reported sustaining drinking related injury
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔social risk avoidance - ✔✔determinant of adolescent typical behaviour
✔✔substance use - ✔✔use of psychoactive substances, including caffeine, alcohol,
cannabis, illicit drugs
✔✔substance misuse - ✔✔use of psychoactive substances in a way that causes
concern and o/or elevates the risk of reduced well being and poor mental health- regular
or excess use, binging, higher frequency than prescribed
✔✔substance use disorder - ✔✔clinically significant abuse or dependency which
includes psychological or physiological ( withdrawal or tolerance) aspects of an
addiction- worse physical health, failure to meet responsibilities...
✔✔mental health concerns and disorders - ✔✔substance use- feeder relationship with
worsening of mental health- which cause more reliance on subtances
✔✔cognition - ✔✔substance misuse associated with altered efficiency of brain
functions- thinking, perceiving and feeling
✔✔attention - ✔✔substance misuse associated with reduced sustained attention
distraction and errors
✔✔learning - ✔✔regular usage of cannabis and alcohol- poor university performance
and higher dropout rates
✔✔motivation - ✔✔low drive and low motivation associated with substance misuse (
regular cannabis use- a-motivational syndrome)
✔✔alcohol - ✔✔acts on CNS, depressant, slows down neural processes and
communication.- cuase disinhibition of normal behvaiour
✔✔binge drinking - ✔✔30% of students reported binge drinking ( 4 or more drinks for
females, 5 or more drinks for males)
✔✔blackouts - ✔✔29% of students reported blackout from drinking- temporar condition
that affects memory- sense of lost time
✔✔regret - ✔✔38% of students report doing something they regretted while drunk
✔✔injury - ✔✔18% of students reported sustaining drinking related injury
