exam 1

Question 1

The sub area of pharmacology that concerns the effects of drugs on behavior.

Answer 1

Psychopharmocology

Question 2

_____________ is the body natural morphine.

Answer 2

Endorphins

Question 3

_________________ refers to the actions people take that help them avoid developing certain health problems.

Answer 3

Primary preventions

Question 4

______________ is the branch of pharmacology that concerns the absorption, distribution, biotransformation, and excretion of drugs

Answer 4

Pharmacokinetics

Question 5

“within the muscle”

Answer 5

Intramuscular injection

Question 6

______________ is when the same person’s regular use of more than one drug.

Answer 6

Polydrug use

Question 7

What are the different routes of drugs that enter the body?

Answer 7

Oral, subcutaneous injection, intramuscular injection, Intravenous injection, Inhalation, intranasal, transdermal

Question 8

What are the 3 ways of getting a false negative drug test?

Answer 8

Sustitution, adulteration,dilution

Question 9

What are the different types of drug testing?

Answer 9

Urine

○ Blood ○ Sweat ○ Saliva ○ Hair

Question 10

____________ is the dose at which a given percentage of

individuals show a particular effect of a drug

Answer 10

Effective dose

Question 11

_____________ is the dose at which a given percentage of nonhumans die within a specified time

Answer 11

Lethal dose

Question 12

What are the different types of drug classifications?

Answer 12

Origen, site of drug action, mechanism of action

Question 13

______________ is the most significant inhibitory transmitter in the brain

Answer 13

gamma amino

Question 14

_____________ is the most abundant of the excitatory neurotransmitters

Answer 14

Glutamate

Question 15

The _______________ _______________ method is not yet yielded.

Answer 15

pass prevention

Question 16

What are the 3 types of interventions?

Answer 16

Primary Prevention Secondary Prevention Tertiary Prevention

Question 17

What are the advantages of the work cite program?

Answer 17

Service to adults who are still functioning well.
▪ Employees are a captive audience.
▪ Employees do not have to travel to hear messages. ▪ Employers benefitting employees improves morale.
Disadvantages:

Question 18

What are the disadvantages of worksite program?

Answer 18

Cost

▪ Concerns about confidentiality

Question 19

______________ is the scientific study of drugs concerned with all information about the effects of drugs on living systems

Answer 19

Pharmocology

Question 20

___________ is the scientific study of behavior.

Answer 20

psychology

Question 21

______________ is any chemical entity or mixture of entities not required for the maintenance of health but that alters biological function or structure when administered.

Answer 21

Drug

Question 22

___________ are drugs that affect mood, thinking and behavior.

Answer 22

Psychoactive drugs

Question 23

How a drug produces its drug effects is _____________

Answer 23

mechanism of action

Question 24

___________ measures of the quantity of the drug consumed.

Answer 24

drug dosage

Question 25

The way that drugs enter the body is _____________

Answer 25

Route of drug administration

Question 26

An individual’s knowledge, attitudes, expectations, and other thoughts about an object or event, such as a drug is ____________.

Answer 26

Psychological set

Question 27

a chemically inactive substance is a _____________.

Answer 27

placebo

Question 28

___________ is typically based on a cluster of symptoms that is given a name.

Answer 28

diagnosis

Question 29

any consumption of alcohol or other drugs and related events that does not meet the criteria for dependence or abuse is _____________.

Answer 29

drug use

Question 30

Overwhelming involvement with using a drug, getting an adequate supply of it, and having a strong tendency to resume use of it after stopping for a period.

Answer 30

addiction

Question 31

A strong or intense desire to use a drug.

Answer 31

craving

Question 32

The emotional state of craving a drug either for its positive effect or to avoid negative effects associated with its abuse.

Answer 32

psychological dependence

Question 33

increased amounts of a drug needed to achieve intoxication, or a diminished drug effect with continued use of the same amount of a drug.

Answer 33

Tolerance

Question 34

A definable illness that occurs with a cessation or decrease in use of a drug.

Answer 34

Withdrawal

Question 35

a number of symptoms that occur together and characterize a specific illness or disease

Answer 35

syndrome

Question 36

repeated use of a drug in interaction with environmental factors results in changes in the brain neural pathways that may heighten the reward value of that drug.

Answer 36

Sensitization Hypothesis

Question 37

Communications designed for widespread distribution, such as advertisements, films, and printed materials.

Answer 37

mass media

Question 38

___________ is outside of cell is more positively charged than inside

Answer 38

Rest

Question 39

_________ is when positively charged ions come in the cell

Answer 39

Excitatory

Question 40

__________ is when negatively charged ions come in the cell

Answer 40

inhibitory

Question 41

____________ is when receptors that are coupled to ion channels and affect the neuron by causing those channels to open.

Answer 41

ionotropic

Question 42

___________ cause the release or activation of second messengers

Answer 42

metabotropic

Question 43

____________ is any substance that fits a receptor lock and activates it

Answer 43

agonist

Question 44

_______________ any substance that occupies a receptor and does not activate it, but prevents other substances from activating the receptor

Answer 44

antagonist

Question 45

______________ resides in axon terminals of neurons that activate the skeletal muscles.

Answer 45

acetylcoline

Question 46

A Chemical structure that contains a single amine group

Answer 46

monomines

Question 47

_________ is the key chemical to mediate physical changes that accompany arousal.

Answer 47

Norepinephrine

Question 48

_____________ is Important to regulation of coordinated motor movements

Answer 48

dopamine

Question 49

______________ Important in regulation of sleep

Answer 49

seratonin

Question 50

_________ are large molecules in the peptide family

Answer 50

endorphins

Question 51

_____________ is when a drug enters the blood stream

Answer 51

absortion

Question 52

The process by which the body breaks down matter into more simple components and waste.

Answer 52

metabolism

Question 53

The transport of drugs by the blood to their sites of action in the body.

Answer 53

distribution

Question 54

The branch of pharmacology that concerns the biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and their mechanisms of action

Answer 54

pharmacodynamics

Question 55

__________ is computed according to a person’s body | weight

Answer 55

drug dose

Question 56

The rate and extent to which a drug leaves its site of administration, and it plays a major role in the drug experience.

Answer 56

drug absortion

Question 57

The portion of the original drug dose that reaches its site of action or that reaches a fluid in the body that gives the drug access to its site of action.

Answer 57

bioavailability

Question 58

A standard way of representing drug effects | that result from taking different drug doses.

Answer 58

dose effect curve

Question 59

____________ represents the change we are interested in recording.

Answer 59

vertical axis

Question 60

__________ represents the range of doses under investigation.

Answer 60

Horizontal axis

Question 61

how much the drug-dose changes before the effect get

Answer 61

slope

Question 62

the peak of the dose-effect curve for a given effect.

Answer 62

efficacy

Question 63

the minimum dose of a drug that yields its efficacy.

Answer 63

potency