Quiz Questions

Question 1

While trying to quit smoking, Joanne tries denicotinized cigarettes and finds they are as enjoyable as regular cirgarettes. What theory of nicotine smoking does this support?

Answer 1

dual reinforcement model

Question 2

After taking high doses of a drug, Jon starts scratching at the skin on his neck and arms until he bleeds. What class of drug did he most likely take?

Answer 2

psychomotor stimulant

Question 3

Although he was an outspoken advocate for Richard Nixon’s campaign against drugs, Elvis Presley didn’t see it as hypocritical that he himself took large amounts of amphetamines and sedatives because his medical doctor had prescribed them to him. What can Elvis’ pattern of drug use thus be called?

Answer 3

iatrogenic

Question 4

While driving home drunk from the bar, Emma is fine at stopping and starting in response to changes in traffic lights. However, when the light turns green she has trouble waiting to go until all of the cars have finished clearing the intersection. What behavioral effect of alcohol is this demonstrating?

Answer 4

disinhibition

Question 5

What opioid drug has a much longer duration of action and is more effective when taken orally than morphine because it is not significantly destroyed by enzymes in the digestive system?

Answer 5

methadone

Question 6

What class of drug can naturally be obtained from the seedpod of the opium poppy plant Papaver somniferum?

Answer 6

opioid

Question 7

Goldilocks wants to try out an opioid drug so that she can feel comfortable sleeping in a house where bears live. What type of opioid drug should she take, which is neither the most predominant opioid ingredient in opium nor the least predominant?

Answer 7

codeine

Question 8

What theory is supported by the fact that depressed individuals have low cerebrospinal-fluid levels of 5-HT, its amino acid precursor tryptophan, and its major metabolite 5-H1AA?

Answer 8

monoamine theory

Question 9

What hallucinogenic drug would a chemist be most likely to mistake for serotonin or melatonin?

Answer 9

LSD

Question 10

After smoking what he thought was a joint, Jake’s face became completely numb, his body felt strange like an abstract sculpture, he started saying things that didn’t make any sense, and he ran down the street naked shouting that the end of world was near. What drug did Jake smoke?

Answer 10

dissociative anesthetic

Question 11

What phenomenon is demonstrated when animals who have been administered barbiturates continue to make responses that are normally punished by electric shock?

Answer 11

disinhibition

Question 12

What property of depressant drugs is the reason why they are sometimes referred to as tranquilizers?

Answer 12

anxiolytic

Question 13

What type of temporary amnesia is an example of dissociation?

Answer 13

grayout

Question 14

What type of temporary amnesia from alcohol is due to a problem with storage?

Answer 14

en bloc blackout

Question 15

What type of withdrawal can produce panic attacks which recur typically every 10 days and can be seen months after starting abstinence?

Answer 15

low dose withdrawal

Question 16

What property of a drug would make it therapeutically useful for treating a sleep disorder?

Answer 16

sedative hypnotic

Question 17

What stage of alcohol withdrawal would be occurring 5 days after an alcoholic has stopped drinking alcohol?

Answer 17

late major syndrome

Question 18

High-dosage use of what class of drug can cause automutilation and formication: the sensation of small creatures (e.g., bugs) crawling around just under the skin?

Answer 18

psychomotor stimulants

Question 19

What type of psychomotor stimulant is derived from a plant that is native to eastern Africa and southern Arabia?

Answer 19

cathinone

Question 20

What methylxanthine product is made from seeds?

Answer 20

coffee

Question 21

What drug both enhances performance and produces disinhibition?

Answer 21

caffeine

Question 22

In the movie, Captain Phillips, actor Tom Hanks plays a ship captain who is hijacking by Somali pirates. To help stay vigilant and courageous, the pirates chew on a certain herb stimulant, but that only keeps for a few days. What type of psychomotor stimulant was it most likely?

Answer 22

cathinone

Question 23

What methylxanthine product was originally from South America but is currently most cultivated in Africa?

Answer 23

cocoa

Question 24

What methylxanthine product is made from seeds?

Answer 24

cocoa

Question 25

In the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Randle McMurphy (portrayed by Jack Nicholson) pretends to do the ‘Thorazine Shuffle’: a slumped posture as he slowly and methodically glides his feet down the hallway. What type of medication is Thorazine (chlorpromazine)?

Answer 25

typical antipsychotic

Question 26

What enzyme’s activity is the main factor in determining how long it will take to metabolize alcohol?

Answer 26

alcohol dehydrogenase

Question 27

What type of antidepressant drug works by blocking reuptake of the monoamines into presynaptic neurons and so prolongs postsynaptic receptor stimulation?

Answer 27

tricyclic antidepressants

Question 28

What type of withdrawal from benzodiazepines starts within a few days of abstinence and is gone within about 10 days?

Answer 28

sedative-hypnotic withdrawal

Question 29

type of withdrawal from benzodiazepines that typically cycles every 10 days and can last anywhere from 2 weeks to as long as a year

Answer 29

low-dose withdrawal