[PSYC62H3] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 73 pages long Study Guide!
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Psychoactive drugs - drugs that affect mood, perception, thinking, or behavior by acting in the nervous system (pg. Psychopharmacology - study of how drugs affect mood, perception, thinking, or behavior. Attempts to relate the actions and effects of drugs to issues in psychology. Another term is neuropsychopharmacology: emphasis on the nervous system actions of drugs, the study of how drugs affect the nervous system and how these nervous system changes alter behavior. Drug administered substance that alters physiological functioning (pg. Administers person takes or is given the substance: limitations. Administered excludes substances made naturally in the body, for example, dopamine is a neurotransmitter made in the nervous system but it can be an administered substance that alters physiological functioning. Herbal remedies not described as drugs despite physiological effects. Food also produces physiological changes in the body (pg. Must not restrict drugs to a specific form or usage or we risk excluding nonconforming substances that may have effects in altering behavior.
