Psyc 3507
Terms and Concepts Chapter 5
The following are major concepts you need to be familiar with from Chapter 5. Remember you
need to familiar with any relationships between terms and concepts as you will be expected
to apply your knowledge on exams. Be sure to ask questions if there is something that you don’t
understand.
What are the defining characteristics of drug abuse?
What are the three models of drug abuse/addiction? What are the major strengths and
weaknesses associated with each of these models?
What is positive reinforcement? What then is negative reinforcement?
What area of the brain is primarily associated with reinforcement?
What are the two major sources of sensory input into the reinforcement system?
What do all drugs of abuse have in common?
What do drugs and natural reinforcers have in common? How are the different?
What types of things can affect self-administration of drugs?
What are the three properties of incentive salience?
What are the two major determinants, that we’ve discussed, that influence a person’s decision to
use a drug?
What is the matching law?
What is inelastic and elastic demand?
Terms
Disease Model Physical Dependence Model Positive Reinforcement Model
Positive Reinforcement Negative Reinforcement
Limbic system VTA Nucleus Accumbens
Natural Reinforcers Self-Administration Priming
Conditioned incentive Incentive Sensitization Place conditioning
Conditioned tolerance Conditioned Sensitization Incentive Salience
Matching Law Inelastic demand Elastic demand
Abuse potential/liability