[PSYC62H3] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (145 pages long)
30 Mar 2017
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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. Neuropsychopharmacology: study of how drugs affect the nervous system and how these nervous system changes alters behavior. Caffeine, sugar, vitamin (has a biological impact: ex. Used in a certain purpose in a certain context. Nomenclature for drugs: trade names: company applies to a given molecule. Ld50 is ed50 for lethality dose-response curves.
