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sabina · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

The cognitive behavioral model of relapse prevention is concerned with the abstinence violation effect. What is the abstinence violation effect?

a. a patient's tendency to lie about concealed drinking
b. the fact that drinking in public is illegal in some states
c. a patient's feeling that he or she is being controlled by the therapist
d. the pattern of going back to chronic drinking if one slips up even a little

Question 2

Discuss what balanced placebo and longitudinal designs can tell us about the possible role of expectations as factors in both alcohol and drug effects and in the onset of alcohol and drug problems.

Answer:

juiceman1987 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: d.

Answer to Question 2

Using the balanced placebo design, researchers have shown that subjects' expectations about how a drug will affect their behavior can account for many of the effects that are usually attributed to the drug itself. For example, subjects who believed they had ingested alcohol but who had actually consumed only tonic water displayed exaggerated aggression and reported enhanced feelings of sexual arousal. Expectations may constitute one of the primary reasons for continued and increasingly heavy consumption of alcoholic beverages. Longitudinal studies have found that adolescents who initially have the most positive expectations about the effects of alcohol go on to consume greater amounts of alcoholic beverages.