PSY/BIO 227: Drugs and Behavior

Vocabulary List Page

Don't take these lists to be exhaustive (that is, there may be terms you should know that don't appear on these lists), but DO take them to be suggestive (that is, I highly suggest that you know these terms, in addition to others we discuss!)

Vocabulary for 1st Week of Class Vocabulary for 2nd Week of Class
Vocabulary for 3rd Week of Class Vocabulary for 4th Week of Class
Vocabulary for 5th Week of Class

Vocabulary for 6th Week of Class

Vocabulary for 7th Week of Class Vocabulary for 8th Week of Class
Vocabulary for 9th Week of Class Vocabulary for 10th Week of Class
Vocabulary for 11th Week of Class Vocabulary for 12th Week of Class
Vocabulary for 13th Week of Class

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WEEK 1 VOCAB: You should learn this vocabulary for our work this week:

Drug

Dose

Dose Response Curve

Lethal Dose 50 (LD 50)

Lethal Dose

Effective Dose 50 (ED 50)

Effective Dose

Margin of Safety

Theraputic Index

Tolerance

Behavioral Tolerance

Cross-tolerance

Dependence

Addiction

Toxicity

Sensitization

Cross-sensitization

Licit

Ilicit

Placebo

Margin of Safety

WEEK 2 VOCAB: You should learn this vocabulary for our work this week:

ED/LD Ratio

Affinity

Ligand

Agonist

Antagonist

Hyperreactor

Hyporeactor

Intramuscular

Subcutaneous

Intranasal

Biotransformation

Elimination half-life

Learned helplessness

Catheter

Yoked control

Negative reinforcement

Response cost

Operant conditioning

Classical conditioning

Unconditioned stimulus (US or UCS)

Conditioned stimulus (CS)

Unconditioned response (UR or UCR)

Conditioned response (CR)

Blood-brain barrier

Mucous membranes

Potency

Half-Life

Synergism

Lipid

Lipid-solubility

Reinforcement

Direct Punishment

Intravenous

Sublingual

Transdermal patch

Metabolite

Latency period

Potentiation

Voodoo death

Primary reinforcer

Secondary reinforcer

Ritualistic behavior

Reward system

Fixed ratio schedle of reinforcment

Variable ratio schedule of reinforcement

Fixed interval ratio of reinforcement

Variable interval ratio of reinforcement

 

WEEK 3 VOCAB: You should learn this vocabulary for our work this week:

Gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA)

Endorphins

Nucleus acumbens

Catheter

Action Potential

Synapse

Neuron

Astrocyte

Glia

Terminal buton

Synaptic vesicle

Forebrain

Cerebellum

Cortex

Midbrain

Thalamus

Reuptake

Acetylcholine (ACh)

Epinephrine (E)

Serotonin (5-HT)

Potassium (K+)

Calcium (Ca++)

Voltage-gated channel

Ligand-gated channel

Synaptic gap or synaptic cleft

Dendrite

Resting potential

Rebound

Central nervous system (CNS)

Peripheral nervous system (PNS)

Autonomic nervous systems (ANS)

Sympathetic nervous system

Sympathomimetic

Parasympathetic nervous system

Receptor site

Autoreceptor

Secondary messenger system

Limbic system

Hindbrain

Medulla

Pons

Reticular formation (ARAS)

Neurotransmitter

Norepinephrine (NE)

Dopamine (DA)

Sodium pump

Sodium (Na+)

Choride (Cl-)

Anion

Cation

Dendritic spine

Upregulation

Downregulation

Presynaptic neuron

Presynaptic inhibition

 

WEEK 4 VOCAB: You should learn this vocabulary for our work this week:

Addiction

Risk Factor

Protective Factor

Substance abuse

Substance dependence

Fetal alcohol syndrome

Cirrhosis

Concordance rate

Disulfiram (Antabuse)

Naltrexone (ReVia)

Rational Recovery (RR)

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

 

Alcoholism

Symtomatic drinking

Abstinence

Enabler

Delirium tremens (DTs)

Thiamine deficiency

Teratogenic

Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome

Systems approach

Codependency

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)