PSYC 3030 Study Guide - Brain Stimulation Reward, Classical Conditioning, Axon Hillock

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3030
• Professor: Rob Foster

Document Summary

: continued abuse even in danger of death or jail. Stimuli conditioned to drug effects: feeling of power. Aversive effects of drugs some people may be more or less sensible to this aversive affects; in some cases they are very powerful and you won"t take it again. If the side effect is very minimum, you"ll use it from now until you die. (negative influence) Risk factors e. g. poor, lack of education, stress, abuse. Protective factors e. g. proper social support, proper education, goals in life, peers. Animal models of addiction: based on operant conditioning. Used to: establish the reinforcing properties of drugs, test the rewarding properties of drugs progressive ratio schedule, test the subjective properties of drugs drug discrimination, model features of addiction. Spontaneous drug-seeking: you remove the drug suddenly and see what the animal will do. Precipitated drug-seeking: you study relapse, the causes and what can lead to drug seeking back.