Drugs and Behavior Practice Exam Two

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Chapter Five 1. ______ are a group of analgesic (painkilling) drugs that produce a relaxed, dreamlike state; and moderately high doses given to people who are nontolerant often induce sleep. a. Opioids 2. Richard is a researcher in a pharmaceutical company. His company develops a new drug to treat chronic joint pain in humans. He wants to check the effect of this drug on a group of elderly people. He divides the group into an experimental group and a control group. He gives the new drug to the experimental group, while he gives a noneffective look-alike drug to the control group. Both groups give the same result. Identify the effect felt by the control group, despite not taking the drug _____. a. Placebo effect 3. The effects of a drug that depend on the presence of a chemical at certain concentrations in a target tissue are called _____. a. Specific effects 4. When neither the person taking the drug nor the person evaluating the effects of the drug knows which people are getting the experimental drug and which people are getting the placebo, this procedure is referred to as a(n) ______. a. Double-blind procedure 5. Alcohol has a low tendency, but tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) has a high tendency to _____. a. Bind to blood proteins 6. Which of the following categories of drugs produce wakefulness at low to moderate doses and a manic state of excitement at high doses _____? a. Stimulants 7. Concussions and cerebral infections can decrease the effectiveness of _____. a. The blood-brain barrier 8. Some drugs may act on all types of neurons by ______. a. Altering the electrical potential across the cell membrane 9. The tendency of a chemical to dissolve in fat, as opposed to in water, is known as ______. a. Lipid solubility 10. ______ are defined as the drugs that are inactive until acted on by enzymes in the body. a. Prodrugs 11. The time course of a drug’s action depends on _____. a. All the above 12. Regardless of the route of administration, psychoactive drugs reach the brain tissue by way of the _____. a. Bloodstream 13. After oral administration, most absorption of the drug molecules takes place in the ______. a. Small intestine 14. If you want to get very high concentrations of cocaine into the bloodstream very rapidly, which route of administration would you probably use _____? a. Intravenous injection 15. Of the following routes of administration, which will produce fastest onset of effects _____? a. Inhalation 16. The threshold on a dose-response curve is the
a. lowest dose at which there is an observable effect of the drug 17. Which of the following terms is defined as the dosage difference between an acceptable level of effectiveness and the lowest toxic dose? a. Safety margin 18. Most of our drugs originally came either directly or indirectly from _____. a. Plants 19. Identify a true statement about the chemical names of drugs _____. a. They are used in laboratory settings when a new drug is being developed and tested 20. The group of psychoactive drugs called stimulants includes _____. a. Cocaine 21. Among the psychoactive drugs, alcohol can be classified as a(n) _____. a. Depressant Chapter Six 22. Most illicit cocaine in the US is powder cocaine (cocaine hydrochloride), which is _____. a. Too stable to be smoked 23. _____ is defined as a method of preparing cocaine as a chemical substance so that it can be smoked. a. Freebase 24. The passage of the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act _____. a. Came after over a thousand stories about cocaine had appeared in the national media 25. Cocaine’s effects in the brain result from blocking______. a. All of the above 26. The most common way cocaine is used recreationally is by _____. a. Snorting 27. Illicit cocaine comes to the US primarily from _____. a. South America 28. The effect of amphetamines on weight control _____ a. Is real, but small and limited in duration 29. Inattention and impulsivity are characteristics of _____. a. ADHD 30. One of the more disturbing side effects of treating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with amphetamines or methylphenidate (Ritalin) is ______. a. Decreased height and weight gains in children 31. The ability of stimulants to improve mental performance ______ a. Depends on the complexity of the task and the dose 32. In 1935, the wake-promoting effect of amphetamine led to testing it for the treatment of _____ which is defined as a condition in which the individual spontaneously falls asleep as many as 50 times a day. a. Narcolepsy 33. Identify a true statement about amphetamines during World War II. _____ a. They were used by Germany to increase its soldiers efficiency 34. Studies of the mechanism of action of the amphetamines have focused mainly on _____. a. Release of norepinephrine and dopamine
35. Which of the following is true about the current use of amphetamines to treat depression? _____ a. Amphetamines are used mostly as an adjunctive therapy 36. What is cocaine still used for medically? a. It is used as a local anesthetic for nasal, laryngeal, and esophageal surgeries. 37. What did the 1914 Harrison Act do? _____ a. Sale of coca, cocaine, and opium 38. When laboratory animals are given unlimited opportunities to self-administer cocaine injection, _____. a. They will readily self-administer it 39. Which of these was not one of the early medical uses for amphetamine first studied in the 1930’s? _____ a. Treating anxiety 40. The use of cocaine by members of the general public in Europe was initially in the form of _____. a. Drinks, such as coca wine Chapter Seven 41. The major advantage of the benzodiazepines over the barbiturates seems to be the _____. a. Greater safety margin 42. Librium (chlordiazepoxide) and Valium (diazepam) were the first widely sold _____. a. Benzodiazepines 43. The “date-rape” drug Rohypnol (flunitrazepam) _____. a. Is sold as a hypnotic agent (sleeping pill) in many countries other than the U.S. 44. When depressants are used as medications to induce sleep, they are called _____. a. Hypnotics 45. Identify the route of administration of sublingual medications. _____ a. Placed under the tongue 46. Animal self-administration experiments and studies of drug choice among humans indicate that _____. a. short-acting barbiturates are more likely to lead to dependence than any of the benzodiazepines 47. Withdrawal from long-term use of sedative-hypnotic drugs is characterized by _____. a. anxiety, insomnia, nausea, seizures 48. Which of the following drugs could theoretically be used to treat barbiturate withdrawals? _____ a. Alcohol 49. One of the oldest gaseous anesthetics, popularly known as “laughing gas,” is _____. a. Nitrous oxide 50. GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyric acid) _____ a. Occurs naturally in the brain 51. Which of the following substances contains nitrous oxide? _____ a. Whipped cream dispensers 52. When benzodiazepines bind to their receptor site, they... a. enhance the inhibitory effects of GABA
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