Drugs & Behavior

Question 1

Drug Classifications

Answer 1

1) Antianxiety and Sedative Hypnotics
2) Antipsychotic Agents
3) Antidepressants
4) Opioids
5) Psychotropics

Question 2

Antianxiety and Sedative-Hypnotic drugs bind to…

Answer 2

GABA receptors

Question 3

Antipsychotic Agents target…

Answer 3

Delusions and hallucinations

Question 4

Psychotropics

Answer 4

Stimulants that affect mental or motor activity, arousal, perception, and mood

Question 5

3 types of Psychotropics

Answer 5

1) Behavioral
2) Psychedelic and Hallucinogenic
3) General

Question 6

Why do people do what they do while under the influence?

Answer 6

1) disinhibition
2) time out
3) myopia

Question 7

Types of tolerance

Answer 7

1) metabolic
2) cellular
3) behavioral

Question 8

Addiction

Answer 8

Behavioral pattern of drug use characterized by overwhelming involvement with the use of a drug, the securing of its supply, and a high tendency to relapse after withdrawal

Question 9

Dopamine Hypothesis of Addiction

Answer 9

1) abused drugs produce psychomotor activation
2) abused drugs produce release of dopamine
3) blocking dopamine blocks addiction

Question 10

Hedonia View of Addiction

Answer 10

Motivation for drug-seeking and drug-taking behaviors come from desire to obtain pleasure

Question 11

Incentive-Sensitization Theory

Answer 11

Drug addiction develops from mesolimbic dopamine system becoming hyper-responsive to drug cues and causing them to be extremely salient

Question 12

Three locations without blood brain barrier

Answer 12

Pineal gland, Pituitary gland, Area Postrema