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In a tolerant individual, the dose response curve will be shifted to the right. Many ways your body can reduce its effects to a drug, below are 3 categories: pharmacodynamic, ex. It is adaptive that you will learn not to respond to a novel stimulus when it is repeated over and over again. Cs and ucs are the same) the above explanation they are opposites (explanation doesn"t fit with the pavlovian paradigm: another explanation, drug effect (ucs, opponent process (ucr, opponent process (ucr, environmental cues (cs) In this example the ucs and cs become the same thing. Models of addiction: moral- the oldest way of conceptualizing drug addiction, moral perspective- an addict is a bad person, addicts must have a character flaw. In society, we usually want to punish people we don"t like. Dependence (negative reinforcement) model of addiction: based on notion that drug taking is reinforced through negative reinforcement, negative reinforcement is not punishment, negative reinforcement strengthens behavior.