PSYC 207 Study Guide - Winter 2019, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Wireless Access Point, Sodium Channel, Neurotransmitter
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Neuroscience: the study of the nervous system. Behavioral neuroscience: relationship between brain and behaviour. Psychopharmacology: focuses on relationship between drugs and behavior. Psychopharmacology: study of drugs effect on mood, perception, cognition (how your brain works) Behavioural pharmacology: uses behavioural principles, classical and operant conditioning. How certain drugs target areas of our brains. Drug: an administered substance that affects physiological functioning. However there are many things we consume that are not drugs/or many things that are endogenous (they are inside us) Using drugs to accomplish a specific purpose (staying awake, getting rid. Using drugs to experience effects of that drug (getting high) of headache) Endings give an idea of what general area it is (anxiety, painkiller etc) Tells you about the structure of the drug. Floor effect and ceiling effect (under a certain dose you wont feel anything, after so much you hit a wall) What percentage of an effect is there/how many people are affected.
