Exam 5: Psychopharmacology and New Drug Development

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 ___________.

Which of the following is not true of drug expectancies?

Setting factors are particularly important in the effects of __________.

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

Research has shown that about _________ of the traffic fatalities in the U.S.are associated with alcohol.

A drug's __________ name indicates the drug's structural formula.

Which of the following is a type of functional tolerance?

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

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

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

__________ is an increase in the frequency of a behavior when it results in avoidance of or escape from something.

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

Which of the following is true?

__________ 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.

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

Tachyphylaxis is another name for ___________.

Studies have shown that young men who later developed alcohol problems were more likely to be __________.

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

As of 2007,generic drugs account for ______ of the prescription drugs that are dispensed in the U.S.

In the development of new drugs,how many species must be tested in the animal testing phase?