Substance Abuse and Addiction Exam Review
Course Introduction
This course explores the complex nature of substance abuse and addiction, examining the physiological, psychological, and social factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of addictive behaviors. Students will learn about various substances of abuse, including their effects on the brain and body, patterns of use, risk factors, and consequences. The course also covers assessment techniques, prevention strategies, treatment modalities, and recovery processes, with an emphasis on evidence-based practices and the role of policy, ethics, and cultural considerations in addressing addiction.
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Alcohol Other Drugs and Behavior Psychological Research Perspectives 2nd Edition by
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John R. Jung
Chapter 1: Psychology of Alcohol and Other Drugs
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Q1) Heroin use by many American soldiers during the Vietnam war was:
A)low, but increased after they came home
B)high, and continued after they returned to the U.S.
C)high but dropped when they returned to the U.S.
D)high, and led to other drugs upon return to the U.S.
Answer: C
Q2) Opium:
A)was a problem in 19<sup>th</sup> century China and England
B)use is seen as a remedy for lethargy
C)is a central nervous system stimulant
D)has no useful medical applications
Answer: A
Q3) Marijuana or cannabis:
A)has a history of medical use
B)was first used by Mexican migrant workers
C)was perceived to lead to violent behavior
D)all of the above
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Theories of Alcohol and Other Drug Use
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Q1) The importance of examining psychological theories of drug use is that it allows us to see
A)What causes initial drug use
B)What leads to initial drug use
C)What results from initial drug use
D)What explains initial drug use
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following statements is true:
A)Psychological factors initially activate smoking, but nicotine level becomes the major determinant during later stages in the development of smoking
B)Sociological factors initially activate smoking, but nicotine level becomes the major determinant during later stages in the development of smoking
C)Psychological factors initially activate smoking, but serotonin level becomes the major determinant during later stages in the development of smoking
D)Nicotine level initially activate smoking, but psychological factors becomes the major determinant during later stages in the development of smoking
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Alcohol and Other Drugs: Use, Abuse, and Dependence
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Q1) The DSM III criteria developed by the American Psychiatric Association:
A)agrees more with the disease conception than with dependence
B)regards alcoholics as having psychiatric problems
C)tries to be precise and objective in defining alcoholism
D)views dependence and abuse as equivalent
Answer: C
Q2) Cigarette use patterns differ from the typical alcohol use pattern in that:
A)smoking occurs throughout the day
B)smoking occurs throughout the week
C)smoking inhalation varies
D)all of the above
Answer: D
Q3) Jellinek's disease model viewed alcoholism as all but:
A)due to loss of control
B)due to lack of willpower
C)a random outcome that could happen to anyone
D)an inherited tendency
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Extent of Alcohol and Other Drug Use
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Q1) 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
Q2) Household surveys of drug use conducted on random probability samples:
A)overlook homeless and inmates of correctional facilities
B)underestimate illegal drug use
C)overestimate if polydrug users get counted more than once
D)c & d only
Q3) The view favored by the field of psychiatry is that some form of ____________ precedes and contributes toward alcohol and other drugs.
A)genetics
B)abnormality
C)psychopathology
D)influence
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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) Dose-response curves for alcohol show all but:
A)effect of increased doses generally is constant
B)at low doses, effect is small, accelerates, and levels off at higher doses
C)higher doses may lead to reduced response levels
D)effect of a given dose varies with age and gender
Q4) Alcohol-related birth defects (ARBD) involve all but the study of:
A)larger samples in the general population
B)only mothers who were heavy drinkers
C)long term development of the child
D)a wider range of drinking levels
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Chapter 6: Heredity and Environment: Alcohol and Other Drug Use
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Q1) All of the following were the findings from the proband studies except:
A)First-degree female, but not male, relatives of alcoholic probands were more likely alcoholic than for the general population
B)The fathers, brothers, and sons of both male and female alcoholics were more at risk to be alcoholic than were the first-degree female relatives such as mothers, sisters, and daughters.
C)Wives of alcoholic men were less likely than the husbands of alcoholic women to also have alcoholism
D)First-degree male, but not female, relatives of alcoholic probands were more likely alcoholic than for the general population
Q2) Results from U.S. adoption studies in Iowa:
A)disagree with conclusions from Danish studies
B)agree with the Danish but not the Swedish findings
C)generally concur with adoption studies in other countries
D)show adoptees had more alcoholism if a parent had both psychiatric and drinking problems
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Chapter 7: Basic Psychology Processes
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Q1) 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
Q2) Which of the following methodology examines correlations between drug use and correlational outcomes?
A)self selection
B)controlled observation
C)naturalistic observation
D)balanced placebo design
Q3) The premature aging hypothesis holds that:
A)alcoholics perform as if they had premature aging
B)alcoholics have deficits of right hemisphere function
C)younger alcoholics perform better than older alcoholics
D)all of the above
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Chapter 8: Interpersonal Processes
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Q1) The relationship of alcohol to violent crimes among inmates may be all but which:
A)inflated, as intoxicated offenders are caught more than are light drinkers or nondrinkers
B)distorted as some cases involve mistaken or false charges
C)easily generalizable to the general population <sup>d.a spurious relationship</sup><sup> due to some third variable</sup>
Q2) Surveys dealing with recall of specific sexual incidents rather than overall sexual behavior provide stronger evidence about the role of alcohol because:
A)memory is more accurate
B)temporal relationship between drinking and sex may be identified
C)lying is less likely
D)corroboration from the partner is possible
Q3) What limitations do controlled observations of lab experiments encounter with drug research?
A)use of small doses over short periods
B)using drug dependent individuals
C)use of large doses over short periods
D)use of small doses over long periods
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Chapter 9: Family Processes
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Q1) Which of the following have been posed as critiques of COA studies?
A)lack of controlled research
B)definition of alcoholic parent is vague
C)few comparisons are made between alcoholic and nonalcoholic
D)all of the above
Q2) Which of the following results were found based on a national longitudinal survey (Windle, 1997) of problem drinking in young adult women?
A)Problem-drinking women were twice as likely to be married to problem drinking husbands than were nondrinking women
B)Women with lifetime use of marijuana were twice as likely to have husbands who were problem drinkers
C)The overall problem drinking prevalence rate was only about 10% but would be higher if older samples were included
D)All of the above
Q3) Which of the following has been found in relation to divorce and drinking?
A) drinking increases due to divorce
B) drinking is reduced due to divorce
C)both a & c
D)a only
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Chapter 10: Age and Alcohol and Other Drug Use
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Q1) A study which examined the relationship between positive expectancies of alcohol and drinking problems of construction, manufacturing and transportation workers showed:
A)Employees still working despite retirement age eligibility had increased drinking problems four years later if they held high alcohol expectancies
B)Employees still working despite retirement age eligibility had decreased drinking problems four years later if they held low alcohol expectancies
C)Employees still working despite retirement age eligibility had decreased drinking problems four years later if they held high alcohol expectancies
D)a & b only
Q2) According to the 2006 Monitoring the future survey,
A)cigarettes was the most frequently used drug
B)tobacco was the most frequently used drug
C)alcohol was the most frequently used drug
D)alcohol and cigarettes was the most frequently used drugs
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Chapter 11: Gender Differences in Alcohol and Other Drug Use
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Q1) All but which of the following were shown to have high co-morbidity with drug dependence?
A)alcohol
B)affective disorders
C)anxiety
D)depression
Q2) Sexually victimized women have been shown to have __________ drinking problems after their experience with sexual abuse.
A)more
B)less
C)moderate
D)none
Q3) All but which of the following statements is true about the drinking habits of older vs. younger women?
A)younger women tend to drink larger quantities per occasion
B)older women consume lower quantities of alcohol than younger women
C)older women drink as frequently as younger women
D)younger women drink more frequently than older women
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Chapter 12: Minority Groups: Alcohol and Other Drug Dependencies
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Q1) 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
Q2) A comparison of relative effects on drinking of both physiological differences and cultural differences between Asian American and European Americans found that:
A)physiological reactivity was the best predictor of ethnic differences in drinking levels
B)attitudes toward drinking was the best predictor of ethnic differences in drinking levels
C)Cultural history was the best predictor of ethnic differences in drinking levels
D)both a & b
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Chapter 13: Recovering From Alcohol and Other Drug Dependencies
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Q1) A study (Bischoff et al. 2000) of natural recovery from alcohol dependence found women
A)had less social pressure to reduce drinking
B)confided with fewer people about former drinking
C)reported higher impact of health problems on recovery
D)all of above
Q2) 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
Q3) Sobell (2002) comparison of two methods of natural recovery methods for alcohol problems found:
A)giving information about the effects of alcohol and guidelines for low-risk drinking and self-monitoring worked better
B)personalized advice/feedback based on participants' assessment of their drinking and related behaviors worked better
C)both methods were comparable at the one year followup
D)neither method was effective in reducing drinking
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Chapter 14: Treatment of Alcohol and Other Drug Dependencies
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Q1) According to a study by Petry (2000), which of the following was found to be true?
A)A greater percentage of alcoholic veterans receiving standard treatment plus contingency management (CM) stayed abstinent
B)Both standard treatment and contingency management (CM) proved to be equally effective in keeping veterans abstinent long after the program
C)The attrition rate was smaller for the standard treatment compared to the standard treatment plus contingency management (CM)
D)Standard treatment alone succeeded in achieving abstinence for treated veterans
Q2) 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
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Chapter 15: Relapse After Treatment of Alcohol and Other Drug Disorders
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Q1) 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
Q2) Cognitive appraisal of the individual is a major factor of whether a slip or lapse inevitably leads to relapse. It has been found that relapse occurred more for:
A)Persons who attributed their lapses to external factors
B)Persons who attributed their lapses to internal factors
C)Persons who attributed their lapses to both external and internal factors
D)None of the above
Q3) Which model may help to best explain the phenomenon of tolerance?
A)Positive appetitional model
B)Compensatory response model
C)Opponent process model
D)Cue extinction model
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Chapter 16: Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems
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Q1) Problems with EAPs have included all but:
A)Excessive threats and punishments to motivate treatment
B)Monitoring behaviors unrelated to work performance or safety
C)Costly evaluation of effectiveness of EAPs
D)Employee resentment
Q2) Bias against lower social classes is reflected by:
A)Bans against drugs associated with immigrant groups
B)More criticism for use of "illegal" than for legal drugs
C)Not recognizing how societal conditions affect drug use
D)All of the above
Q3) All but which prevention effort is focused on the host:
A)Reduce the individual's desire or incentive to drink
B)Use of education and persuasion
C)Reduce desire to use specific drugs
D)Focus on reducing drug availability
Q4) Most proponents of drug control see all but which:
A)Need to distinguish between drug use and abuse.
B)Most drug use is harmful, sooner or later.
C)Drugs cause antisocial and criminal behavior.
D)Use of one drug may lead to use of more dangerous drugs.
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