PSYC62H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Face Validity, Heart Rate, Fetus
23 Jan 2017
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Psychopharmacology: study of how drugs affect mood, perception, thinking, or behavior. Psychoactive drugs: drugs that act on the nervous system to impact mood, perception, thinking, or behavior. Psychoactive drug use is highly prevalent: antidepressants, pain-relievers, anxiety, recreational drugs: alcohol, marijuana, misuse of prescription, tobacco. As consumers we should know what we are (cid:494)consuming(cid:495: roles of nts. Psychoactive substances provide understanding of human behavior. Pharmacotherapeutics: psychology scientists test psychoactive drugs and determine potential effectiveness for psychological disorders. Drug: administered substance that alters physiological functioning: administered: given or takes substance. Administered excludes substances which is made naturally in body: ie. Misuse: drugs meant for instrumental but instead used recreationally. Dose: ratio of amount of drug per organism(cid:495)s body weight. Generally higher a drug(cid:495)s dose = greater effect. *dose-effect cure: depicts level of a drug effect by dose: abuse: drug use that causes harm to user or others, dependence: can capture abuse, but also features of need or urge.
