Psychopharmacology Review Questions
Course Introduction
Psychopharmacology is the scientific study of how drugs affect mood, behavior, cognition, and mental processes through their actions on the nervous system. This course explores the mechanisms of action, therapeutic uses, side effects, and abuse potentials of major classes of psychoactive drugs, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, stimulants, and hallucinogens. Students will gain a foundational understanding of neurochemical pathways involved in psychiatric disorders and learn how pharmacological agents are used in their treatment. Emphasis is placed on integrating neuroscience with clinical applications, ethical considerations, and recent research advances in the field.
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Alcohol Other Drugs and Behavior Psychological Research Perspectives 2nd Edition by John R. Jung
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Chapter 1: Psychology of Alcohol and Other Drugs
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Q1) The history of drug attitudes and policies from early years of the nation to the present involved a struggle among three types of values, ___________, ____________ and ___________.
A)conservative, medicinal, criminal
B)libertarian, medicinal, criminal
C)libertarian, medicinal, political
D)conservative, medicinal, religious
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following drugs was considered harmless, not additive, and used as an anesthetic during the civil war?
A)tobacco
B)opiate
C)marijuana
D)morphine
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Theories of Alcohol and Other Drug Use
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Q1) The developmental model of vulnerability to drug used proposed that:
A)risk factors such as parental drug abuse or depressed mood decrease the likelihood that a child will develop drug abuse
B)risk factors such as parental drug abuse or depressed mood increase the likelihood that a child will develop drug abuse
C)risk factors such as peer drug abuse or depressed mood decrease the likelihood that a child will develop drug abuse
D)risk factors such as age or depressed mood increase the likelihood that a child will develop drug abuse
Answer: B
Q2) Caffeine has been associated with all but which of the following disorders:
A)restless legs syndrome
B)depression
C)attention deficit hyperactive disorder
D)antisocial personality disorder
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Alcohol and Other Drugs: Use, Abuse, and Dependence
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Q1) A quantity frequency index of drinking:
A)ignores the level of heavy drinking
B)ignores how often a person drinks
C)ignores the maximum amount a person drinks
D)all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Major differences between alcoholism under DSM III and the alcohol dependence syndrome (ADS) include:
A)ADS has more emphasis on loss of control
B)a dichotomy of alcohol/nonalcoholic in ADS
C)ADS sees alcohol-related problems as a second aspect
D)ADS has more emphasis on progression
Answer: C
Q3) Heavy drinking is:
A)often defined as 5 plus drinks on an occasion several times in a month
B)generally used as a term of disapproval
C)an indication of addiction
D)is related to heavy use of other drugs
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: The Extent of Alcohol and Other Drug Use
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Q1) Past studies have found an association between _________ personality and alcohol dependency.
A)schizotypal
B)aggressive
C)dissociative
D)antisocial
Q2) Epidemiological studies:
A)indicate the extent of drug use
B)establish the causes of drug use
C)develop theoretical accounts
D)provide prevention approaches
Q3) Epidemiology involves:
A)use of large random samples
B)identifying the number of users in the general population
C)identifying characteristics of users in the general population
D)self report surveys of college students
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Chapter 5: Neurobiology of Alcohol and Other Drug Use
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Q1) During adolesence, fetal alcohol babies have all except which problem below:
A)cognitive
B)perceptual
C)information processing
D)obesity
Q2) Smoking as a means of drug delivery is:
A)very fast and produces potent effects on the brain
B)damages the lungs because of the high temperature
C)are weaker as they bypass the acidity of the stomach
D)involves detoxification on its first pass through the body
Q3) Which of the following statements is true about drinking:
A)1 to 2 drinks a day has been associated with less risk for heart disease
B)1 to 2 drinks a day has been associated with more risk for heart disease
C)2 to 3 drinks a day has been associated with more risk for heart disease
D)2 to 3 drinks a day has been associated with less risk for heart disease
Q4) All but which is true of neurotransmitters:
A)activated by impulses from other neurons
B)regulate flow of information among neurons
C)can inhibit signal transmission
D)allow ions to cross the synapse
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Chapter 6: Heredity and Environment: Alcohol and Other Drug Use
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Q1) Molecular genetics include all but following view of alcoholism:
A)It is determined by quantitative trait loci
B)It is independent of environmental factors
C)It is a probabilistic rather than certain outcome of genetic factors
D)It has polymorphic determinants
Q2) In the liability model higher MZ than DZ concordance rates for alcohol dependency stems from:
A)an addictive genetic factor (A)
B)a common environment (C) and a specific environment (E) unique to each twin
C)the total influence from all genetic and environmental sources
D)whichever factor, genetic or environmental, is stronger
Q3) The Danish adoption study of 55 male offspring of alcoholic parents found:
A)more alcoholism for adoptees with at least one alcoholic parent
B)sons of alcoholics had a higher rate of divorce than sons of nonalcoholics
C)no differences in psychiatric disorder for sons of alcoholics and nonalcoholics
D)a and b
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Chapter 7: Basic Psychology Processes
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Q1) Explicit memory is retention about events that occurred with _________ awareness of the participant, whereas implicit memory involves memory that occurred when participants had _________ awareness that their memory would be tested later.
A)no, no
B)full, full
C)no, full
D)full, no
Q2) Which of the following statements are true conclusions from Duka's 2001 study.
A)Explicit memory was better if the drug state at encoding and retrieval was the same
B)Alcohol given at retrieval decreased the cued recall of items from high associations compared to placebo, but did not have an effect on implicit stem completion
C)Implicit memory was better if the drug states during encoding and retrieval had been different
D)All above statements are true
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Chapter 8: Interpersonal Processes
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Q1) One review (Bux, 1996) of problem drinking among gay men and lesbians found:
A)gay men not at higher risk for drinking heavily
B)gay men at higher risk for drinking problems than heterosexual men
C)gay men more likely to abstain than heterosexuals
D)lesbians more likely to abstain than heterosexuals
Q2) Which of the following statements refer to the attention-allocation model?
A)alcohol has a myopic effect on attention that may facilitate aggression since the individual focuses on less salient provocative, rather than less salient inhibitory, cues in hostile situations
B)alcohol has a myopic effect on attention that may facilitate aggression because the individual focuses on the more salient provocative, rather than more salient inhibitory, cues in hostile situations
C)alcohol has a myopic effect on attention that may facilitate aggression because the individual focuses on the more salient provocative, rather than less salient inhibitory, cues in hostile situations.
D)alcohol has a myopic effect on attention that may facilitate aggression because the individual focuses on the less salient provocative, rather than more salient inhibitory, cues in hostile situations
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Chapter 9: Family Processes
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Q1) How does the codependent play a role in facilitating the problem when dealing with alcoholics?
A)a codependent may try to rescue the family and assume the responsibility of performing the tasks of the alcoholic in addition to his or her own
B)a codependent may influence the alcoholic by drinking themselves due to their depression
C)a codependent may become aggressive toward the alcoholic in their efforts to be assertive
D)all of the above
Q2) Which of the following explanations have been offered to account for the correlations between alcohol and domestic violence?
A)domestic violence related to alcohol abuse may be due to more attention to cues that instigate aggression.
B)Nonviolent and violent alcoholics may have different drinking patterns
C)Bing drinkers are more likely to be violent than nondrinkers
D)All of the above
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Chapter 10: Age and Alcohol and Other Drug Use
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Q1) According to the 2006 NSDUH study, cigarette smoking was highest for which of the following age group?
A)18-21
B)21-25
C)25-30
D)30-35
Q2) Studies show that more drinking problems have been found for :
A)late onset drinkers
B)earlier onset drinkers
C)neither a or b
D)both a & b
Q3) Which of the following applies to the beliefs of adolescents?
A)drinking is an adult activity that they avoid
B)being young and relatively healthy, they can control their drug use
C)curiosity, conformity, defiance, add to the allure of drug use
D)b & c
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Chapter 11: Gender Differences in Alcohol and Other Drug Use
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Q1) An analysis of population surveys from 10 major countries has found which of the following consistent gender effects regarding alcohol consumption?
A)men exceed women in their average drinking frequency
B)women exceed men in their average quantity per drinking occasion
C)women showed an increase risk of alcohol related problems
D)a & b
Q2) Kandel et al (1998) found the progression of different drugs used by men and women was:
A)very similar for men and women
B)alcohol preceded marijuana use, and then other illicit drug use for men
C)cigarette or alcohol use more likely preceded marijuana use and then other illicit drugs among women
D)b and c
Q3) Which of the following factors lead to underestimates of the impact of alcohol in women than for men?
A)Proportion of body fat to water
B)Body Weight
C)Estrogen levels
D)a and b
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Chapter 12: Minority Groups: Alcohol and Other Drug Dependencies
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Q1) Acculturation has had a protective influence for which of the following Asian groups?
A)Chinese Americans
B)Japanese Americans
C)Korean Americans
D)Vietnamese Americans
Q2) Race and ethnicity often fail to control for which of the following when examining drug use?
A)age
B)gender
C)socioeconomic status
D)both b & c
Q3) Drinking for the Japanese in the U. S. have been found to:
A)increase for Japanese men
B)increase for Japanese women
C)decrease for Japanese women
D)a & c
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Chapter 13: Recovering From Alcohol and Other Drug Dependencies
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Q1) The hope of motivational interviewing is to create sufficient _____________ to motivate the individual to want to change.
A)knowledge
B)determination
C)discomfort
D)awareness
Q2) Studies show which of the following individuals were able to benefit the most from AA?
A)Alcoholics who entered treatment and AA about the same time
B)Alcoholics who entered treatment but delayed participation in AA
C)Alcoholics who entered AA first and entered treatment second
D)Alcoholics who entered AA only
Q3) Rational Recovery believes that:
A)individuals can quit without help and are not powerless under alcohol
B)alcoholism is not a disease
C)a only
D)both a & b
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Chapter 14: Treatment of Alcohol and Other Drug Dependencies
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Q1) As part of this approach to learning, alternative coping behaviors for reducing stress through techniques such as relaxation training and stress management are provided.
A)Social learning
B)Social behavioral learning
C)Cognitive learning
D)Cognitive behavioral learning
Q2) According to a random clinical trial on drug replacement approaches comparing LAAM vs. methadone in regards to heroin users over a 1 year period, all of the following findings were true except for:
A)LAAM was less effective than MM in promoting abstinence from opiate use while in treatment.
B)LAAM resulted in fewer opiate-positive samples during clinic sessions.
C)LAAM led to more abstinence during the last 24 weeks of treatment.
D)LAAM was more effective than MM in promoting retention.
Q3) What makes comparisons of studies of quitting smoking meaningless?
A)Because the attrition rate varies in each study.
B)Because survey studies of smoking have self-report bias.
C)Because samples used are often not generalizable to the population.
D)Because different studies used different criteria of quitting.
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Chapter 15: Relapse After Treatment of Alcohol and Other Drug Disorders
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Q1) A test of the clinical effectiveness of cue exposure treatment for alcohol dependence found support for the:
A)Extinction view
B)Opponent process theory
C)Conditioned withdrawal
D)None of the above
Q2) Findings from a study that examined the role of craving for drugs during abstinence and withdrawal found which of the following:
A)Craving was a major self-reported cause of relapse
B)Craving was not a major self-reported cause of relapse
C)Relapse was related to conscious craving
D)Both a & c
Q3) All but which of the following is true about "abstinence violation effect" (AVE)?
A)The drinker who yields to temptation and resumes the use of alcohol experiences cognitive dissonance with his or her goals of abstinence.
B)AVEs may increase guilt
C)AVEs may increase self-efficacy
D)AVEs may lower attributions of internal control
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Chapter 16: Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems
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Q1) The Life Skills Training (Botvin, Schinke, Epstein, Diaz, & Botvin, 1995) classroom program:
A)Teaches general personal and social skills
B)Drug resistance skills
C)Includes instruction, demonstration, and rehearsal
D)All of the above
Q2) Primary prevention involves:
A)Identifying present drug abusers
B)Treatment of persons suffering from drug problems
C)a and b
D)None of the above
Q3) Drug testing is one objective approach at identifying drugs at work that:
A)Implies the employee is guilty until proven innocent
B)Assumes that drug tests such as urinanalysis are valid
C)Involves invasion of privacy and lack of confidentiality
D)All of the above
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