Psychopharmacology Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Psychopharmacology explores the effects of drugs on mood, behavior, cognition, and the nervous system. The course covers the basic principles of pharmacology, including drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination. Students examine the major classes of psychoactive drugs, such as antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, and stimulants, as well as substances of abuse. Emphasis is placed on the mechanisms of action at the neural level, therapeutic uses, side effects, drug interactions, and the ethical considerations related to psychotropic medication. Through integrative case studies, students gain insight into how pharmacological treatments are applied in clinical and research settings.
Recommended Textbook Drugs Across the Spectrum 7th Edition by Raymond Goldberg
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Chapter 1: Drugs in Perspective
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Q1) Define and give examples of drug use, misuse, and abuse.
Answer: -Drug misuse:unintentional or inappropriate use of prescribed or over-the-counter drugs (ex., using cough syrup to get high).
-Drug Abuse:the intentional and inappropriate use of a drug resulting in physical, emotional, financial, social or intellectual consequences.(ex., regularly using cough syrup to get high and committing crimes in order to procure cough syrup)
Q2) Aqua vitae refers to
A) distillation
B) fermentation
C) water of life
D) wine
Answer: C
Q3) Which holy book condemned coffee as an intoxicant and banned its use?
A) Bible
B) Koran
C) Concordance
D) Talmud
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Drugs in Contemporary Society
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Q1) Biphetamine is also referred to as "black widow."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Nearly __________ Americans die each year from the use of tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs.
A) 500,000
B) 1 million
C) 1.5 million
D) 2 million
Answer: A
Q3) What are the consequences of drug use on the family, education, and employment?
Answer: -Drug use is associated with divorce
-Drug use is a factor in family stability
-There is a higher dropout rate from school for those who use alcohol, illicit drugs, and cigarettes
-Employed drug users have less stable job histories than nonusers
-Drug use is associated with higher accident rates on the job and lower productivity
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Chapter 3: Motivations for Drug Use
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Q1) Ingesting and injecting several steroids at the same time is referred to as
A) stacking
B) a speed run
C) a steroid rush
D) ergogenic euphoria
Answer: A
Q2) Curiosity about drugs is mainly the fault of the schools.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) An OTC substance that has gained in popularity is the amino acid
A) creatine monohydrate
B) herbal ecstasy
C) adenosine phosphate
D) ascorbic acid
Answer: A
Q4) Young people choose to associate with others who share the same interests.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Drugs and the Law
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Q1) The result, in part, of Benjamin Rush's writings in the 1700s was
A) the Whiskey Rebellion
B) the temperance movement
C) the Marijuana Tax Act
D) the first Pure Food and Drug Act
Q2) According to the drug schedules, cocaine has no medical use.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The stimulus to the passage of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 were deaths associated with
A) cocaine
B) elixir sulfanilamide
C) aspirin
D) acetaminophen
Q4) The 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act was merely a restatement of the 1906 act.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the key elements to the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970.
Q6) Discuss the arguments for and against decriminalizing and/or legalizing drugs.
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Chapter 5: The Pharmacology and Physiology of Drug Use
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Q1) Hormonal differences account for disparate responses to drugs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Reverse tolerance means that a drug user will feel the desired effects with less amounts of the drug.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss the differences between the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system.
Q4) The smallest amount of a drug to produce an effect is referred to as the A) effective dose
B) threshold dose
C) safety dose
D) marginal dose
Q5) The possibility of a toxic reaction is decreased when drugs are stored in the adipose tissue.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Distinguish between threshold dose, effective dose, and lethal dose.
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Chapter 6: Alcohol
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Q1) The act to prohibit alcohol was known as the
A) Humphrey-Durham Amendment
B) Volstead Act
C) Kefauver-Harris Amendment
D) Drug Abuse Act
Q2) The more ______ a person becomes, the more he or she follows the drinking patterns of the adopted population.
A) depressed
B) social
C) educated
D) acculturated
Q3) African American men have a greater percentage of alcohol abuse than white men.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Identify and discuss key historical events related to alcohol.
Q5) Moderate alcohol intake has been said to reduce risk of heart disease by
A) 30%
B) 35%
C) 40%
D) 45%
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Chapter 7: Tobacco
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Q1) Currently, approximately what percentage of women smoke?
A) 12%
B) 18%
C) 32%
D) 42%
Q2) Cigarette smoke contains which substance that interferes with the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood?
A) Tar
B) Carbon monoxide
C) Carbon dioxide
D) Hydrogen cyanide
Q3) Snus differs from other tobacco products in that it
A) is less carcinogenic
B) does not require spitting
C) is packaged in small pouches
D) all of the above
Q4) According to C.Everett Koop, nicotine dependence is as difficult to overcome as dependence on heroin or cocaine.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Narcotics
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Q1) Bayer marketed heroin as a drug for A) coughs
B) tuberculosis
C) bronchitis
D) all of the above
Q2) Heroin addicts have little, if any, sex drive.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Narcotic users have increased sociability.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Detoxification typically takes how many days?
A) 1-2
B) 10-14
C) 16-21
D) 22-28
Q5) OxyContin has been reformulated so it cannot be easily crushed and abused.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the key historical points in the use of opiates in the United States.
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Chapter 9: Sedative Hypnotic Drugs
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Q1) Barbiturates are classified according to their rate of absorption into the body.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Recalling previously learned information is not affected by benzodiazepines, but learning new information is affected.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Medically, GHB has been shown useful in
A) preventing nausea
B) opiate detoxification
C) inducing labor
D) treating glaucoma
Q4) Paraldehyde is commonly known as "knockout drops."
A)True
B)False
Q5) Barbiturates and alcohol create an effect that is
A) synergistic
B) additive
C) benign
D) dilative
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Chapter 10: Psychotherapeutic Drugs
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Q1) After treatment is ceased, tardive dyskinesia reversed itself in what percent of patients?
A) 55%
B) 65%
C) 75%
D) 85%
Q2) Paroxetine is a generic term for
A) Elavil
B) Prozac
C) Paxil
D) Zoloft
Q3) Bipolar affective disorder was formerly called
A) a highly-curable mental illness
B) a mental illness that is difficult to cure
C) manic depression
D) a unipolar affective disorder
Q4) Identify and briefly discuss the differences between the different types of antidepressants.
Q5) Would you consider antipsychotic medication to be miracle drugs? Why or why not?
Q6) Why is it difficult to define mental illness?
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Chapter 11: Stimulants: Cocaine, Amphetamines, and Caffeine
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Q1) Who referred to cocaine as the "third scourge of humanity?"
A) Freud
B) Szasz
C) Reagan
D) Bush
Q2) Should use of amphetamines have been condoned in World War II? What ethical issues did this policy raise?
Q3) The freebase process entails separating cocaine from its hydrochloride salt.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Caffeinism is marked by
A) irritability
B) depression
C) insomnia
D) all of the above
Q5) Crack cocaine use emerged in the ________.
A) 1960s
B) 1970s
C) 1980s
D) 1990s
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Chapter 12: Marijuana
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Q1) Which form of cannabis is used to make rope?
A) Indica
B) Ruderalis
C) Sativa
D) Sinsemilla
Q2) Charas is the name used in India for
A) marijuana
B) hash oil
C) hashish
D) THC
Q3) The lower leaves, stem, and seeds of the cannabis plant of poor quality are termed A) ganja
B) hashish
C) sinsemilla
D) bhang
Q4) Ganja refers to the top flowers and young leaves of the cannabis plant.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Identify and discuss the differences between the different forms of marijuana.
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Chapter 13: Hallucinogen
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Q1) Psilocybin is the active agent in "shrooms."
A)True
B)False
Q2) St.Anthony's fire is associated with
A) psilocybin
B) mescaline
C) ergotism
D) atropine
Q3) Teonanacatl is
A) "God's flesh"
B) "friends folly"
C) "mother's bread"
D) "father's help"
Q4) LSD was discovered by
A) Leary
B) Hoffman
C) Alpert
D) Schultes
Q5) What is salvinorin A and what are the possible positive and negative effects?
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Q6) Why is PCP so dangerous and why should ketamine also be considered dangerous?
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Chapter 14: Over the Counter Drugs
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Q1) Alli works by
A) blocking absorption of fat
B) burning fat
C) stimulating metabolism
D) increasing stomach acid
Q2) Distinguish between the three OTC drug FDA classification categories.
Q3) Which of the following is banned by the FDA?
A) Ephedrine
B) PPIs
C) Xanthine
D) Creatine
Q4) Salts of magnesium in antacids could result in which side effect?
A) Diarrhea
B) Headaches
C) Constipation
D) Ringing in the ears
Q5) Some prescription drugs have been switched to OTC drugs.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Do you think doctors are too restrictive in prescribing analgesics?
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Chapter 15: Substance Abuse Treatment
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Q1) Recruiting and retaining staff in treatment programs is difficult because
A) of intense demands
B) most are addicts themselves
C) most reject authority
D) all of the above
Q2) Twice as many men have alcohol problems as women, but women are four times more likely to get treatment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Research shows that a major benefit of drug courts is that
A) more people are rearrested and convicted
B) fewer people are rearrested and convicted
C) less police are needed to oversee illegal drug distribution
D) less treatment facilities are needed
Q4) Criticisms of AA include which of the following?
A) AA oppresses the symptoms of alcoholism, not the underlying cause.
B) AA advocates that alcoholism is a disease.
C) AA is rigid in its beliefs.
D) All of the above are criticisms of AA.
Q5) Discuss the benefits of drug treatment.
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Chapter 16: Drug Prevention and Education
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Q1) In resistance skills training, students are taught how to recognize, manage, and elude situations in which drug use is possible.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Drug-taking behavior learned through modeling and reinforcement is the premise of
A) skills training
B) DARE
C) LST
D) Project ALERT
Q3) Parenting skills have nothing to do with whether or not children use alcohol or other drugs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to Pentz, barriers to institutionalizing community prevention efforts include
A) community leaders' lack of perceived empowerment
B) communities' insufficient preparation for adopting successful programs
C) public resistance to spending
D) all of the above
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