Drugs and Hormones

Question 1

Psychopharmacology

Answer 1

Field of study that analyzes how drugs affect the nervous system and behavior

Question 2

Types of drug administration

Answer 2

Oral, inhalation, and injection

Question 3

Drug administration ranked by efficiency

Answer 3

Oral, inhalation, injection

Question 4

Catabolism

Answer 4

When drugs are broken down in the kidneys, liver, and intestines

Question 5

Relationship between drugs, hormones, and the pituitary gland

Answer 5

Drugs that influence our hormones primarily do so by acting on the pituitary gland

Question 6

Agonist

Answer 6

Substance that ENHANCES the function of a synapse

Question 7

Antagonist

Answer 7

Substance that BLOCKS or DECREASES the function of a synapse

Question 8

Agonist is to antagonist as…

Answer 8

Fast is to slow

Question 9

How to increase tolerance

Answer 9

Repeated use of drug

Question 10

How to increase sensitization

Answer 10

Occasional use of drug

Question 11

Dopamine Hypothesis

Answer 11

Hypothesized relationship between schizophrenia and dopamine

Question 12

What happens when cues that have previously been associated with drug taking are encountered?

Answer 12

Cues activate dopaminergic system and induce feelings of WANTING

Question 13

What is the sequence of hormonal releases in the SLOW response to stress?

Answer 13

corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), adrenocorticotropin-releasing hormone (ACTH), cortisol