Exam 5: Psychopharmacology and New Drug Development

When given , the usual disruption in behavior produced by introducing the punishment component in "conflict paradigm" experiments does not occur.

In the United States, the Drug Enforcement Administration sets the guidelines regulating new drug development.

Which of the following is not true of drug expectancies?

Which of the following is thought to contribute to drug expectancies?

What can be concluded from the results of the 1993 Concorde study?

If an individual needs to drink 6 beers in order to achieve the same effect that he/she used to experience with 3 beers, this is an example of .

Tachyphylaxis is another name for .

refers to the experimental method in which neither the experimenter nor the subject knows which experimental condition the subject is in.

A group is one in which subjects receive a chemically inactive substance, but are of the same make- up and are treated the same as subjects who do receive the drug.

A is a consequence of a behavior that increases the likelihood that it will occur in the future.

"Downregulation" refers to a process where repeated exposure to a drug increases the number of receptor sites on neurons that the drug activates.

The cell adaptation-homeostasis theory of drug tolerance is most helpful in explaining tolerance.

A specified dose of a drug administered to a man and a woman on average will have greater effects on the woman. This is because of differences in .

According to the stress response dampening model, people who are are more likely to be sensitive to alcohol's stress­reducing effects.

What is the first stage in the FDA's guidelines for the testing and marketing of a drug?

Acute tolerance to alcohol is more likely to produce impairment in the speed in which we perform cognitive tasks than in the accuracy of performance.

The term "placebo effects" arose in the 16th Century with the Catholic Church's effort to discriminate between exorcisms of the devil that were real or fake.

A control group is an experimental group in which subjects can control the dose of a drug that is administered.

Sometimes the body counteracts a drug's disruption to the body's homeostasis by producing an effect opposite to the drug effect. This is referred to as .

The is a set of ethical guidelines established after WWII to prevent human rights abuse in biomedical research.