A-AS Level (CIE) Psychology: Specimen Questions with Answers 174 - 175 of 299

Explanation

Difference between Substance Use and Substance Abuse are as follows

• Substance use is the ingestion of psychoactive substances in moderate amount that does not significantly interfere with social, educational and occupational functioning. For example drinking a cup of coffee in the morning

• Substance Abuse-How much of substance ingested is problematic. If a substance ingested disrupts your education, job or relationships with others and put you in dangerous situation called as a substance abuser. Example LSD etc.

Explanation

Crowd is a physically compact organization of human beings brought into direct, temporary and UN organized contact with one another.

Active crowd can be divided as follows

• Aggressive crowd- People in aggressive crowd has a destructive frame of mind, capable of any and every act of destruction ad irrationality brutality and inhumanity

• Panicky crowd- Fear-stricken crowd whose constituent members are almost crazed with fear to appoint where they can no longer think and find reason

• Acquisitive crowd- Acquisitive crowd is compose almost entirely of individuals whose objectives is to gain or obtain something, be it a cinema ticket, kerosene oil etc.

• Expressive crowd- People gathered to give expression or to manifest their demands or sentiments

• Inactive crowd- No crowd is completely inactive. The difference between an active and inactive crowd is only relative. The inactive crowd even resembles an audience

  • Crowd has no predetermined aim

  • There is no definite time and place for crowd

  • Behaviour of the crowd us not certain

  • People within the crowd stimulate each other

  • Members are motivated by emotions and soon become uncontrollable

• Overt and covert- Overt conflict has some manifestation but covert conflict primarily remains invisible