addiction and learning Flashcards
what is a caveat
when something is named a disease but isn’t contagious
is it true that every perception, emotion, thought and organism is a product of some biological mechanism
yes
what is it meant by maladaptive
when you’ve adopted to something over time in a bad way - like addiction
is addiction a top-down process or a bottom-up process
it is usually a top-down process as the addiction is mental, however, it is also bottom-up because your body had physical effects to drugs
is classical conditioning a conscious or unconscious process
unconscious
what is classical condition
it is when a unconditioned stimulus is turned into a conditioned stimulus and is used to created a conditioned response by using reflexes
what is cue reactivity
it is when an environmental cue causes a relapse
what is operant conditioning
is it when someone receives a punishment or reinforcement for doing a behaviour
what kind of conditioning is it when reinforcements are used
operant
is operant conditioning autonomic
no its sympathetic
what reward system is used for reinforcements
the dopaminergic reward system
what pathway is used for reinforcements
the mesolimbic pathway
what is in the reinforcement system
nigrostriatal pathway, medial forebrain bundle, hippothalamus, substance nigra, ventral tegmental area, hypothalamus , pituitary, nucleus accumbens, mesolimbic pathway
what is a bolus dose
a small dose of drugs that are used to ween people from addiction
what is the evolution basis of reward
for survival, humans are evolved to like immediate reward rather than delayed
