Exam 5: Psychopharmacology and New Drug Development

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 __________.

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.

How was penicillin discovered?

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

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.

Individual differences in the initial sensitivity to a drug's effects are thought to be determined by __________.

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

Expectancy effects are most prominent with behaviors or emotions that society proscribes from free expression.

Which of the following is a way in which new drugs are discovered?

At what blood alcohol level do most states consider an individual to be legally intoxicated?

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

Reacquisition of tolerance following an extended period of abstinence takes as long as when tolerance to the drug was initially developed.

Which of the following is true regarding a drug's generic name?

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

The American Medical Association prefers that their customers use brand-name drugs rather than generic drugs because the brand-name drugs are more rigorously tested.

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.

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

Which of the following is true of generic drugs?

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