Exam 5: Psychopharmacology and New Drug Development

In drug studies, the generalizability from animals to humans is poor.

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

Which of the following is true?

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

refers to an increase in the rate of the metabolism of a drug, so that the user must consume greater quantities of it in order to maintain a certain level of the drug in his or her body.

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

When Eliza visited a shaman, she drank a "magic" mushroom tea that made her see colors and visions - and she got so much clarity on her life's journey.A week later, Eliza read that the shaman was arrested for fraud and that the whole experience was a sham, including the normal grocery store tea that she drank.What caused Eliza's visions when she was with the shaman?

According to cell adaptation theory, the cells of the become adapted to the presence of a drug with repeated exposure to it.

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

tolerance is a type of functional tolerance that is measured within the course of action of a single dose or first few doses of a drug.

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

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

Which of the following is a brand name for a drug?

Research has shown that about of the traffic fatalities in the United States are associated with alcohol.

If an individual learns to compensate for his or her drunkenness by walking more slowly, this would be an example of tolerance.