Exam 5: Psychopharmacology and New Drug Development

The set of ethical guidelines for biomedical research is known as the Nuremburg code.

studies allow behavioral pharmacologists to classify experimental drugs according to their subjective effects even before they have been administered to people.

Marijuana is a drug whose pharmacological effects far outweigh the influence of expectancies.

The phenomenon of occurs when repeated administration of a drug results in reduced response to that drug.

Because a heavier person has more blood and other body fluids than a lighter person, the same drug dose has more of an effect on the heavier person.

Research subjects who drank in the company of others were more likely to report about physical changes related to drinking than were subjects who drank alone.

is an example of a drug that was approved too early, before potential side effects could adequately be explored.

According to the Stress Response Dampening model, individuals who have had a stressful drug or alcohol experience are less likely to abuse drugs or alcohol.

Learning not to touch a hot stove after having been burned by it is an example of learning through .

Which of the following is true?

means a state of equilibrium or balance.

A person who is highly tolerant to creates problems for anesthesiologists in surgery.

Research has indicated that men and women who have developed substance use disorders may be distinguished from people who did not on the basis of personality characteristics predating the substance abuse.

The elderly are more sensitive to drug effects because their enzyme systems may be impaired, resulting in increased duration of drug action.

There appear to be underlying genetic differences between ethnic subgroups that impact their response to a dose of a given psychotherapeutic drug.

Once a particular tolerance level is reached, it is irreversible.

Which of the following accurately describes the influence that age has on drug effects?

How do drug expectancies develop? How do they affect the drug experience?

In tolerance, tolerance to one drug may extend to other closely related drugs.

Which of the following are examples of conditioned stimuli associated with substance use?