Drug Dependence/ attention

Question 1

class of psychoactive drugs used to induce sleep or reduce anxiety by depressing your CNS( not often perscribed)

Answer 1

Barbiturates

Question 2

class of psychoactive drugs used to induce sleep or reduce anxiety by depressing your CNS(commonly prescribed)

Answer 2

Benzodiazepines

Question 3

class of psychoactive drugs that can induce sleep and reduce pain but is NOT a depressant

Answer 3

Opiates/ Opioids

Question 4

Class of drugs that act on GABA receptors, open Cl- channels on your neuron and inhibit excitation

Answer 4

Depressants

Question 5

where is dopamine produced?

Answer 5

The ventral tegmental area of the mid brain

Question 6

Prototypical hallucinogen. Interferes with serotonin, which causes people to
experience hallucinations

causes Hallucinations that are visual instead of auditory

Answer 6

LSD

Question 7

What is one common way overdoses happen?

Answer 7

Drug user switches his environement that he does the drug (body does not prepare for drug)

Question 8

What is a “crash”

Answer 8

Body changes its homeostasis preparing for drug, but doesnt recieve the drug

Question 9

What locations does the VTA send dopamine( as part of the reward system)?

Answer 9

• amygdala(emotions)
• hippocampus(memory)
• Nucleus accumbens (controls motor movements)
• prefrontal cortex(attention)

Question 10

the amygdala and hippocampus are part of____ pathway

Answer 10

mesolimbic

Question 11

Is a reduction
in the efficacy or responsiveness to a novel drug due to a
common CNS target.

Answer 11

Cross Tolerance

Question 12

what are common signs you are addicted to a drug

Answer 12

Tolerance to drug

need drug to feel normal not euphoric

Question 13

refers to behavioural and psychological effects on the person

Answer 13

Intoxication

Question 14

Can result in substance induced disorders

Answer 14

withdrawl

Question 15

what is the difference between substance induced disorders and substance use disorders

Answer 15

substance induced disorders-
conditions that are caused by substance

substance use disorders-

1) increasing substance usage
2) experience withdrawal symptoms

Question 16

what drug is commonly given as therapy to drug addicts?

Answer 16

Methadone

Question 17

Psychological treatments for drug treatment

Answer 17

• Cognitive behavioral therapy

- Motivational interviewing

Question 18

Cocktail Party effect

Answer 18

ability to concentrate on one voice in a crowd. or when someone calls your name(endogenous cue)

Question 19

in-attentional blindness aka Perceptual Blindness

Answer 19

“miss something right in front of you”

Question 20

Change Blindness

Answer 20

fail to notice changes from a previous to a current state in environment

Question 21

are objects and events out in the world about you that you are aware of and respond to

Answer 21

distal stimuli

Question 22

are patterns of stimuli from objects that we perceive with our senses

Answer 22

proximal stimuli

Question 23

is the act of bringing

the spotlight of attention on an object or event without body or eye movement.

Answer 23

Covert Orienting

Question 24

a person turns all or part of body to alter maximize sensory impact of environment

Answer 24

overt orienting

Question 25

occures when attention is attracted by the motion of an object

Answer 25

attention capture

Question 26

occures when brain damage causes loss in spatial dimension of divided attention

Answer 26

Neglect Syndrome

Question 27

what is the main neurotransmitter that modulates the Basal forebrain (orientating attention)

Answer 27

Acetycholine

Question 28

collection of structures located below the striatum. It is considered to be the major cholinergic output of the central nervous system

Answer 28

Basal forebrain

Question 29

type of attention that is involved in goal-directed behavior

Answer 29

Executive attention