Exam 5: Drugs of Abuse

During drug addiction,a user must take higher amounts of a drug to overcome:

All of the following are features of food addiction except:

A reduced firing rate of mesolimbic neurons would likely cause:

All of the following are likely associated with increased levels of dopamine except:

How might an unconditioned stimulus be described?

The U.S.federal law that regulates sale and possession of drugs identified as controlled substances is called the:

Habits learned while using a drug are mediated by the:

_________ refers to a drug's effects after acute administration that produce a maladaptive and impaired state.

What role does ghrelin play in enjoying highly palatable foods?

During the stages of drug addiction,the first stage of addiction is:

The _____________ elicits autonomic system effects associated with physiological withdrawal symptoms.

The involvement of the hippocampus,amygdala,orbitofrontal cortex,and dorsolateral cortex as a drug addiction develops suggests that:

Olds found that electrodes placed near the __________________ produced greater reinforcing effects than other places in the brain that he inserted the electrode.

__________________ consists of a resistant or slower conditioning process that occurs from using a familiar stimulus as the neutral stimulus.

All of the following are features of twelve-step anonymous programs except:

All of the following are features of incentive salience in drug addiction except:

The absence of a chronically use drug failing to compensate for opposing effects,according to the Opponent Process theory of drug addiction,would correspond best with the ______________ stage of the drug addiction cycle.

Providing vouchers for meals at a local restaurant when a person remained abstinent from drug use would be an example of a(n):

The neurobiological systems most closely linked to intoxication for an addictive substance are:

In the incentive-salience model,wanting and craving are the same thing.