PSY 627 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
●● Pharmcodynamics
Answer: - the effects of drugs and the mechanism of their actions.
Basically what medications do and how. Relationship between drug
concentration at the site of action and the resulting effect.
●● Drug effects
Answer: Therapeutic effects: the drug-receptor interaction that produces
that desired physiological and/or behavioral changes
Side effects: all non-therapeutic effects produced by the drug that range
in severity from mildly annoying to life-threatening
Specific drug effects: the desired biochemical and physiological effects
of a drug that occur when the drug molecule interacts with its target site
Nonspecific drug effects: the physiological and behavioral effects of a
drug that occur based on one's unique physiology
●● placebo effect
Answer: when a person's mental or physical health appears to improve
due to taking a "placebo" or a dummy treatment.
,●● placebo
Answer: a "sugar" pill that has no effect on physiological or psychiatric
functioning
●● nocebo effect
Answer: the experience of negative treatment outcomes that can occur in
response to both active and non-active (moveable) treatments,
medicines, or procedures but it is not directly influenced by the
treatment itself.
●● bioavailability
Answer: the extent and rate at which the active drug enters systematic
circulation, thereby accessing the site of action
●● Intravenous (IV)
Answer: pertaining to within a vein, fastest way to get the drug to the
brain in about 2-3 seconds
●● intramuscular
Answer: within the muscle, directly into the skeletal muscle typically
bicep or the gluteus maximus
●● Inhalation
, Answer: the act of taking in air as the diaphragm contracts and pulls
downward, the second fastest means of getting drug molecules to the
brain
●● intraperitoneal
Answer: into the abdominal cavity, extends from the bottom of the rib
cage to the pelvis
subcutaneous - beneath the skin, but not into the blood vessel
●● subcutaneous
Answer: beneath the skin, but not into the blood vessel
●● sublingual
Answer: placing a medication under the tongue, quickly absorbed into
the blood stream by the blood vessels that nourish the tongue
●● topical
Answer: applied to the surface of the skin
●● transdermal
Answer: Crossing through the skin, medication is absorbed across the
skin and into the blood stream.
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
●● Pharmcodynamics
Answer: - the effects of drugs and the mechanism of their actions.
Basically what medications do and how. Relationship between drug
concentration at the site of action and the resulting effect.
●● Drug effects
Answer: Therapeutic effects: the drug-receptor interaction that produces
that desired physiological and/or behavioral changes
Side effects: all non-therapeutic effects produced by the drug that range
in severity from mildly annoying to life-threatening
Specific drug effects: the desired biochemical and physiological effects
of a drug that occur when the drug molecule interacts with its target site
Nonspecific drug effects: the physiological and behavioral effects of a
drug that occur based on one's unique physiology
●● placebo effect
Answer: when a person's mental or physical health appears to improve
due to taking a "placebo" or a dummy treatment.
,●● placebo
Answer: a "sugar" pill that has no effect on physiological or psychiatric
functioning
●● nocebo effect
Answer: the experience of negative treatment outcomes that can occur in
response to both active and non-active (moveable) treatments,
medicines, or procedures but it is not directly influenced by the
treatment itself.
●● bioavailability
Answer: the extent and rate at which the active drug enters systematic
circulation, thereby accessing the site of action
●● Intravenous (IV)
Answer: pertaining to within a vein, fastest way to get the drug to the
brain in about 2-3 seconds
●● intramuscular
Answer: within the muscle, directly into the skeletal muscle typically
bicep or the gluteus maximus
●● Inhalation
, Answer: the act of taking in air as the diaphragm contracts and pulls
downward, the second fastest means of getting drug molecules to the
brain
●● intraperitoneal
Answer: into the abdominal cavity, extends from the bottom of the rib
cage to the pelvis
subcutaneous - beneath the skin, but not into the blood vessel
●● subcutaneous
Answer: beneath the skin, but not into the blood vessel
●● sublingual
Answer: placing a medication under the tongue, quickly absorbed into
the blood stream by the blood vessels that nourish the tongue
●● topical
Answer: applied to the surface of the skin
●● transdermal
Answer: Crossing through the skin, medication is absorbed across the
skin and into the blood stream.
