60s+&+70s

History students: describe specific events surrounding the sexual revolution, drugs, obesity/eating disorders during this time period

Stanford here: http://www.sfheart.com/sixties_culture_fashion.html check this site out history people. work towards collaborating the powerpoint Psych students: describe the above items in terms of psychology (drug processes/types, process of hunger, sexual motivation, etc). [|Culture and Media of the 1960’s and 1970’s.ppt] updated...Cherrie open this one __Stimulants__ increase nervous system activity, and include caffine, amphetamines (speed), and cocaine.In large amounts, they cause nervousness, shaking movements or jitters, insomnia, and irregular heartbeats. __Opiates__ are drugs derived from the opium poppy or synthetic drugs similar to natural opiates in chemical structure and action. Opiates include heroin, morphine, and codeine, as well as the endorphins-natural pain-killing substances secreted by the body.
 * Kathleen F:** __Depressants__ decrease nervous system activity, and include sedatives, hypnotics and alcohol. PCP (phencyclidine)is a sedative often used in the 1960's and 1970's.

__Eating disorders__ happen as a result of severe disturbances in eating behavior, such as unhealthy reduction of food intake or extreme overeating. These patterns can be caused by feelings of distress or concern about body shape or weight and they harm normal body composition and function. Eating disorders frequently develop during adolescence or early adulthood, but some reports indicate their onset can occur during childhood or later in adulthood. Many adolescents are able to hide these behaviors from their family for months or years. Eating disorders frequently occur together with other psychiatric illness such as depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders. In addition, people who suffer from eating disorders can experience a wide range of physical health complications, including serious heart conditions and kidney failure, which may lead to death. Recognition of eating disorders as real and treatable diseases, therefore, is critically important. Emotional stresses like depression or difficulties adapting to family problems can trigger a disturbance in a child or teen's nutrition. Drug or alcohol abuse by family members can also be risk factors, with an affected child adopting poor eating habits as a manner of coping. In addition, media images have been cited as raising the incidence of eating disorders in both males and females who may drastically reduce their intake of food while exercising compulsively. People with anorexia nervosa see themselves as overweight even though they are dangerously thin. In bulimia nervosa, despite sufferers usually weighing within the normal range for their age and height, like individuals with anorexia, they may fear gaining weight, desire to lose weight, and feel intensely dissatisfied with their bodies. Many with binge-eating disorders are overweight for their age and height. Feelings of self-disgust and shame associated with this illness can lead to bingeing again, creating a cycle of binge eating.

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Biological motives include hunger, thirst, the pursuit of pleasure, and the avoidance of pain. An early attempt to specify how these motives affect animal behavior was the ambitious theory of Clark Hull. Hull tried to explain all human and animal motivation using mathematical formulas. Hull borrowed from the concept of homeostasis or biological regulation. His assumption that biological motives followed the pattern of homeostasis is reflected in modern concepts such as the for fat regulation. Modern theories of hunger and thirst involve multiple factors. For example, obesity is thought to be strongly influenced by genetic factors, but overeating clearly plays a role in many cases. Some individuals suffer defects in satiety regulation: an extreme example occurs as part of the Prader-Willi syndrome. Thirst also involves multiple factors, such as the volume of water in the stomach, the body as a whole, and in the interior of cells. The concept of stress-induced behavior resembles Hull's original drive concept. It also resembles popular ideas about motivation held by non-scientists: that motivation involves a vague sort of pep or energy, generated in response to environmental challenge (stress) and shaped or directed by the situational context.

Has anyone else worked on the power point at all?

=Kathleen Rothschild http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2005/is_1_38/ai_n6234784 SUMMARY: 40s and 50s- "golden years" post wwII. "american dream" - 2 kids, house, car, man works, wife is domestic. sexual tendencies getting more promiscuous, but premarital sex (especially for women) still not acceptable. 1960s sexual revolution= deindividuation of baby boomer's kids. youth experimented with drugs and sex. many people today blame sexual revolution for today's "love children" (childless parents), high divorce rates, advances in illegal and abused substances. most of those who were young and participated in sexual revolution have abandoned those ideals, and are dealing with consequences as a nation. revolution = response to postwar psychology of golden years. uproars agains vietnam added to the deindividuation.

BIOLOGICAL CAUSES OF HUNGER: http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsyhunger.html most of the food you eat gets converted to glucose and is stored as fat for later use. when your glucose is low, the lateral hypothalamus is triggered and you become aware of your hunger. the paraventricular hypothalamus tells you which foods you need, which explains certain "cravings." satiety is the feeling that you need to stop eating, which is where the ventromedial hypothalamus is triggered. Leptin decreases appetite, and a person's metabolism is essentially how fast one burns calories, in order to maintain their set point, or their set body weight. habits and trends of a certain culture also alter the way people eat. for example, in the united states, people tend to eat more than in other parts of the world, so obesity rates are extremely high. likewise, the u.s. is based around a celebrity culture and the pressure to be thin, so eating disorder rates are also high.

Thomas here. was at school related absences. 60's events: First it started in post world war !! 50s when the young generation got tired of having to conform to what their parents wanted...teen rebellion. They called them beatniks (anti-institution/anti conformity). Americans textbook will get apa biblio later for citation

Cherrie: Known as the baby boom generation the 60's and 70's were full of sexual freedom. During this period there was an excellaration in premarital sex. This new way of seeing sex as open and expressive brought the need of contraceptives, and extensions of legalized abortion. The pill and abortion gave women a choice. Women being able to make their choice about facing motherhood or not brought about a fast pace growth of single mothers. Even though people changed their views about sex having a child out of wedlock was still looked at the same, and most saw that the chances of them gettting married under their circumstances were very scarce and the outcome was moe women seeking higher education. In the 1970's court case Roe v. Wade showed that this era was about having sex not as just being erotic and whatever happens happens but it was about being free about your sexuality but having contraceptive in mind. In this courtcase Jane Roe was denied an abortion in the state of Texas because her life was not threatened by her pregnancy. Drugs in this era included LSD(acid) and marijuana mostly due to the the music industries impact on american lives. Music really set the scene for what was in or out. This brought about a hippie movement. The music scene encouraged everyone to partake in this movement, they threw parties where they did cocaine. With the protest of the war the new thing was make love not war. I started on my pp pages, I will post it tomorrow. Cherrie

Thomas:so what do you guys need or want me to do for the power point? Woodstock showcased the stoner revolution of the 1970s with artists like Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar, Greatful Dead, CCR, Janis Joplin, and many others. Roughly 400,000 people attended the festival. [|http://www.woodstock69.com]

HISTORY PEOPLE: i was thinking we could include something about the vietnam war, that was a big part of protesting and the revolutions. if yall find any info on that, please include it also, we need some more sources from yall

let us know if there is anything more you need from us -kathleen rothschild

Thomas: The Vietnam Conflict was sparked in the United States when France requested assistance after their defeat at Dien Bien Phu. The United States wasn't used to the guerilla warfare tactics that the Vietcong and the NVA used against them. The tropical jungles and the insects and diseases were all unfamiliar and to the disadvantages of our troops. Many of the youth in America thought that it wasn't our place to be telling someone else what to do whether it was to prevent the spread of Communism or not. Many soldiers in the war suffered psychological problems and lived the horrors of war even when they came home. The disrespect they got from the people back home also demoralized their purpose and their feelings about being somewhere they didnt want to be anyways. Vietnam at the time was also in cases an alternative to serving time in prison. http://vietnam.vassar.edu/overview.html http://www.vietnamwar.com/ http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/vietnam/index.cfm

Cherrie Williamson: I didn't see the slide show and what it looked like. My slides look different as far as the back ground. Just a heads up when viewing my slides, you have to watch the slide show because it looks jumbled up when in edit mode because of the animations but it is put together well.