DRUGS AND BEHAVIOR EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
ALREADY GRADED A+
Psychoactive drugs Ans✓✓✓1) have the ability to alter the functioning
of the brain and hence produce changes in our behavior and experience.
2) drugs that affect feelings, thoughts, perceptions, or behavior. Can be
divided into abuse and non-abused.
illicit (illegal) drugs Ans✓✓✓Best-known examples are heroin, cocaine,
and (except in some US states) marijuana, as well as a wide range of so
called "club drugs," such as methamphetamine (meth), Ecstasy, LSD,
PCP, ketamine, and GHB.
Illicit drugs Ans✓✓✓Drugs whose manufacture, sale, or possession is
illegal
Licit drugs Ans✓✓✓Drugs whose manufacture, sale, or possession is
legal
Drug dependence Ans✓✓✓A condition in which an individual feels a
compulsive need to continue taking a drug. In the process, the drug
assumes an increasingly central role in the individual's life.
Active ingredient: Ans✓✓✓The ingredient in the substance that
produces the desired effect. In beer, wine, or yeast the active ingredient
is ethyl alcohol or ethanol.
,The active ingredient in marijuana is thc.
psychology Ans✓✓✓study of behaviors and cognitive processes.
Cognitive processes: Ans✓✓✓a) emotions,
b) memory, (ex.caffeine affects memory, rohypnol(date rape drug) one
of the effects blocks memory, lastly alcohol affects memory.)
c) Thinking/reasoning,( alcohol affects reasoning and cocaine. Cocaine
makes people paranoid.)
d) Sensory perception; (an example is marijuana it affects the sense of
time.)
Behaviors Ans✓✓✓when they ingest cocaine or marijuana people
become talkative. People get the "munchies"
Non-psychoactive- Ans✓✓✓Aspirin take away pain but not significant
in the effect that it becomes effective.
Another non-psychoactive drug is penicillin.
Psychoactive drug that is abused: Ans✓✓✓Cocaine, produce pleasure
which is why they are abused.
Non-abused Psychoactive Drugs: Ans✓✓✓Zoloft, Prosac,
antidepressants
, Non-medical Psychoactive Drugs: Ans✓✓✓Mushrooms
Medical Psychoactive Drug: Ans✓✓✓Cocaine
The same chemical depending on how its used can be medical or non-
medical.
Abused Psychoactive Drug: Ans✓✓✓LSD (does not produce the need
to continue to use it; does not become addicted to it), magic mushrooms,
or peyote.
Addictive Psychoactive Drug: Ans✓✓✓Alcohol, Cocaine, Codeine and
Morphine are addictive drugs.
Drug-addict: Ans✓✓✓a person whose life revolves around the drug.
They become a slave to the drug.
Drug: Ans✓✓✓A chemical substance that, when taken into the body,
alters the structure or functioning of the body in some way, excluding
those nutrients considered to be related to normal functioning.
Marijuana at the federal level Ans✓✓✓is illegal.
3 Major Classes Ans✓✓✓1) Stimulants, (uppers)
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
ALREADY GRADED A+
Psychoactive drugs Ans✓✓✓1) have the ability to alter the functioning
of the brain and hence produce changes in our behavior and experience.
2) drugs that affect feelings, thoughts, perceptions, or behavior. Can be
divided into abuse and non-abused.
illicit (illegal) drugs Ans✓✓✓Best-known examples are heroin, cocaine,
and (except in some US states) marijuana, as well as a wide range of so
called "club drugs," such as methamphetamine (meth), Ecstasy, LSD,
PCP, ketamine, and GHB.
Illicit drugs Ans✓✓✓Drugs whose manufacture, sale, or possession is
illegal
Licit drugs Ans✓✓✓Drugs whose manufacture, sale, or possession is
legal
Drug dependence Ans✓✓✓A condition in which an individual feels a
compulsive need to continue taking a drug. In the process, the drug
assumes an increasingly central role in the individual's life.
Active ingredient: Ans✓✓✓The ingredient in the substance that
produces the desired effect. In beer, wine, or yeast the active ingredient
is ethyl alcohol or ethanol.
,The active ingredient in marijuana is thc.
psychology Ans✓✓✓study of behaviors and cognitive processes.
Cognitive processes: Ans✓✓✓a) emotions,
b) memory, (ex.caffeine affects memory, rohypnol(date rape drug) one
of the effects blocks memory, lastly alcohol affects memory.)
c) Thinking/reasoning,( alcohol affects reasoning and cocaine. Cocaine
makes people paranoid.)
d) Sensory perception; (an example is marijuana it affects the sense of
time.)
Behaviors Ans✓✓✓when they ingest cocaine or marijuana people
become talkative. People get the "munchies"
Non-psychoactive- Ans✓✓✓Aspirin take away pain but not significant
in the effect that it becomes effective.
Another non-psychoactive drug is penicillin.
Psychoactive drug that is abused: Ans✓✓✓Cocaine, produce pleasure
which is why they are abused.
Non-abused Psychoactive Drugs: Ans✓✓✓Zoloft, Prosac,
antidepressants
, Non-medical Psychoactive Drugs: Ans✓✓✓Mushrooms
Medical Psychoactive Drug: Ans✓✓✓Cocaine
The same chemical depending on how its used can be medical or non-
medical.
Abused Psychoactive Drug: Ans✓✓✓LSD (does not produce the need
to continue to use it; does not become addicted to it), magic mushrooms,
or peyote.
Addictive Psychoactive Drug: Ans✓✓✓Alcohol, Cocaine, Codeine and
Morphine are addictive drugs.
Drug-addict: Ans✓✓✓a person whose life revolves around the drug.
They become a slave to the drug.
Drug: Ans✓✓✓A chemical substance that, when taken into the body,
alters the structure or functioning of the body in some way, excluding
those nutrients considered to be related to normal functioning.
Marijuana at the federal level Ans✓✓✓is illegal.
3 Major Classes Ans✓✓✓1) Stimulants, (uppers)
