Midterm

Question 1

Define Psychopharmacology

Answer 1

The study of how drugs affect mood, perception, thinking, or behavior

Question 2

Define Psychoactive Drugs

Answer 2

Drugs that affect mood, perception, thinking, or behavior

Question 3

Define Behavioural Pharmacology

Answer 3

The study of how drugs affect behaviour (emphasis on principles used in behaviour analysis)

Question 4

Define Neuropsychopharmacology

Answer 4

The study of how drugs affect the nervous system (changes alter behaviour)

Question 5

Traditional Definition of a Drug?

Answer 5

Any substance that alters the physiology of the body

Question 6

Contemporary Definition of a Drug?

Answer 6

Any substance that alters the physiology of the body but is NOT a food

Question 7

Define Generic Name

Answer 7

Non-proprietary name, indicates the drugs class, & distinguishes a drug from others in the same class (Codeine)

Question 8

Define Trade Name

Answer 8

Trademarked name that a company provides for a drug (Tylenol 3)

Question 9

Define Chemical Name

Answer 9

Details a drugs chemical structure (3-Methoxymorphine)

Question 10

Define Street Name

Answer 10

Given by those who use, sell, or illegally make recreational drugs (Sizzurp)

Question 11

How are dosages reported?

Answer 11

Metric system, tend to be reported in mg

Question 12

Define Dose Response Curve (DRC)

Answer 12

Curve that establishes a true picture of physiological & behavioural effects of a drug

Question 13

Define ED50

Answer 13

Median effective dose

Question 14

Define LD50

Answer 14

Median lethal dose

Question 15

Define Potency

Answer 15

The amount of a drug used to produce a certain magnitude of effect

Question 16

Potency is the difference between the ______ of different drugs

Answer 16

ED50

Question 17

The lower the ED50, the higher the _________

Answer 17

potency

Question 18

Define Effectiveness

Answer 18

The ability of a drug to elicit a response, regardless of dose

Question 19

Define Objective Effects

Answer 19

The pharmacological effects that can be directly observed by others

Question 20

Define Subjective Effects

Answer 20

The pharmacological effects that cannot be directly observed by others

Question 21

Define Therapeutic Index

Answer 21

Conveys the distance between toxic and therapeutic doses

Question 22

Define Pharmacodynamics

Answer 22

The physiological actions of drugs

Question 23

Define Pharmacokinetics

Answer 23

How drugs move and pass through the body

Question 24

Define Pharmacogenetics

Answer 24

How genetic differences influence a drugs pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties

Question 25

In what order do the Pharmacokinetic steps happen?

Answer 25

Absorption, Distribution, Biotransformation, Elimination

Question 26

Define Absorption

Answer 26

Drug administration/absorbed into blood stream

Question 27

Define Distribution

Answer 27

Passage of drug from blood stream into organs

Question 28

Define Biotransformation

Answer 28

Drug broken down into metabolites by enzymes

Question 29

Define Elimination

Answer 29

Drugs or metabolites or both are eliminated from the body