CAS PS 333 Lecture Notes - Chlorpromazine, Blind Experiment, Operant Conditioning

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 333

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Lecture 9: behavioral analysis of drug effects 1. Early addiction therapy: how have the effects of drugs been studied and characterized, benjamin rush father of modern psychiatry, therapeutic approaches to addiction, conceived idea that alcoholism is a disease. Experimental research and design: true experimental research manipulates a variable and observes the effects of that manipulation on another variables results imply causation. Independent variable (iv) - manipulated event (at least 2 conditions: dependent variable (dv) observed event, ex. Iv tutoring (manipulated) and dv- test scores. Looking at the relationship between mj use and iq: prospective study n=1038, age birth to 38, conclusions: neurotoxic effect of cannabis on the adolescent brain stretch. Classes of behavior in non-humans: unconditioned = unlearned behavior. Anxiety: conditioned = learned behavior, used to reveal what happens in addiction for example, associative behavior associating two things together, two main categories, classical (pavlovian conditioning) conditioning, operant (instrumental) conditioning.