Drugs And Behavior Test 3

Front 1

Jim Sloan's initial experience with cocaine use did not affect him. What triggered his increased cocaine use?

Back 1

The continued use of free base crack. He enjoyed the rush then he continued use.

Front 2

According to Conan Kortnetsky, an area of the brain is known to be involved in reward for many behaviors. Which brain area?

Back 2

The Nucleus Accumbens is responsible for the pleasure part of the brain. This includes rewards for sex, food and drug use.

Front 3

How is electrical stimulation of the brain different from natural reinforcers?

Back 3

No satiation. We do not become full. We keep doing the behavior.

Front 4

What kind of evidence demonstrates that electrical stimulation of the brain is a strong reinforcer?

Back 4

because drug addicts will engage in illeagle behavior or painful behavior in order to recieve a high.

Front 5

what other kinds of stimuli act on the nucleus accumbens?

Back 5

sex, food, anything pleasurable.

Front 6

Which neurotransmitter is involved in the rewarding effects of drugs and other rewarding stimuli?

Back 6

Dopamine. (Why heroin is called "dope")

Front 7

If the nerve cells that release this neurotransmitter are destoryed how are responses to reinforcing stimuli effected?

Back 7

the person will loose desire to continue use. No reward.

Front 8

What learning phenomenea may have contributed to vietnam vet nate chambers use of heroin during the war?

Back 8

operant conditioning? (ask about this)

self-medication

Front 9

what was hans kosterlitz secret idea?

Back 9

morphine substance in the brain

changing muscle in the brain=heroin effect

natural morphine

Front 10

liza harrison became addicted to what kind of tranquilizing drug?

Back 10

valium-benzodiasopines

Front 11

what learning phenomenea contributed to liza's continued use?

Back 11

pavlovian conditioning? (ask about this)

Front 12

what change in drug receptor populations contribute to symptoms of withdrawl when one abstains from using an addictive drug?

Back 12

more receptors bind to the sites as the dosage increases resulting in a reduction of excitability

when one abstains they expierence tolerance and withdrawl from lack of binding.

Front 13

what was the surprise when vietnam vets returned from vietnam?

Back 13

several were addicts when they were in vietnam but less than 50% used when they got back and less than 50% of that continued use.

Front 14

What is the relationship of p3 to al groom? what occurres in his offspring?

Back 14

deficit of p3 in al groom

p3 missing in alcoholic fathers

deficits in cognition

sensory deficits

inherits the p3 deficit and is more likley to become addicted when the child grows older

Front 15

what learning terminology describes jim sloans triggers for cocaine craving?

Back 15

see perniphelia (ask about this)

Front 16

the process used to treat sloans triggers were?

Back 16

desensitization

Front 17

how did sloans body temp change the first expierament to the current one in the video?

Back 17

his body temp dropped to 76 degrees. This time it stayed at 97.

Front 18

Naloxone sensitive

Back 18

blocks stress

Front 19

acupuncture

Back 19

objectivly reduces pain

Front 20

placebo effect

Back 20

not imaginary; mediated by opioid.

when one is given a drug and immediately feels the effect or may have not been given a drug and they feel effects.

Front 21

what blocks opioid mediated analgesia?

Back 21

naloxone

Front 22

Operant Learning

Back 22

attempt to change enviornment

controlled by consequences

aquisition and maitence

Front 23

Pavlovian conditioning (respondant of operant learning)

Back 23

involuntary behavior

triggered by external events

learned reflxes

motivation

Front 24

naloxone

Back 24

blocks stress induced analygesia

Front 25

reaquisition

Back 25

pair ques with unconditional stimilus

Front 26

unconditional stimulus

Back 26

biologically important

survival value

(food, water, sex)

Front 27

unconditional response

Back 27

reflexive response

automatic

(saliva, stomach growling)

Front 28

conditional stimuli (cs)

Back 28

initially neutral

becomes a signal/que

Front 29

conditional response (cr)

Back 29

learned response

elicited by conditional stimuli

Front 30

spontaneous recovery

Back 30

passage of time

Front 31

disinhibition

Back 31

cs in new context

Front 32

renewal effect

Back 32

extinction in different context than aquasition

Front 33

reaquasition

Back 33

cr reestablished

Front 34

a process

Back 34

physiological disturbance

homeostatic disturbance

Front 35

b process

Back 35

compensatory response

Front 36

observed response

Back 36

a+b processes

net effects

Front 37

salience

Back 37

how important it is in lifes

Front 38

sensitization

Back 38

increased drug effects

Front 39

appetitive stimulus

Back 39

something you want

Front 40

adversive stimulus

Back 40

oppsite of what you want

Front 41

positive reinforcement

Back 41

nice effect

Front 42

negitive reinforcement

Back 42

subtracting bad