Author Question: If given an opportunity to release cocaine or morphine into its bloodstream, e.g., by pressing a ... (Read 123 times)

james9437 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

If given an opportunity to release cocaine or morphine into its bloodstream, e.g., by pressing a lever that delivers the drug intravenously,

a nonhuman animal will typically do so, and when the drug is no longer delivered after many responses by the animal, it will stop lever pressing. However, if the animal is exposed to a stressor or sees or hears a cue that was originally presented when the drug was delivered, it will typically start lever pressing again. This phenomenon is referred to as
a. priming b. sensitization c. augmentation d. tolerance

Question 2

When monkeys are hooked up to an apparatus so that a small injection of a drug directly into the bloodstream occurs when the animals perform same response, which of the following drugs are they likely to self-administer?

a. cocaine
b. amphetamine
c. morphine
d. all of these