[PSYC62H3] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (82 pages long)
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There is a writing component to this course: 10, neuropsychological problem of pharmacology, quality of writing is important! literature. How plausible and unique is your solution with existing. 1 page, single spaced 12 point font 1 inch margins, times. Midterm 1 is not cumulative with midterm 2. Final exams will contain conceptual understandings from midterms. Psychoactive substances have an enormous impact on society: alcohol and tobacco use. Has negative impact on social behavior and individual health: prescription drugs for psychiatric indications. Broad areas of inquiry: major classes of psychoactive drugs, psychoactive drug actions in the body, psychoactive drug effects on behavior. Study of how drugs affect mood, perception (higher sensory reception), thinking (cognitive manipulation), or behavior. Psychoactive drugs: achieve above effects by acting on the nervous system. Behavioral pharmacology: study of how drugs affect behavior; sometimes behavioral pharmacologists emphasize principles used in field of behavioral analysis.
