Taking or using a drug so often that you body takes longer to experience the drug's effect
What is tolerance?
100
Drugs that calm neural activity and slow body functions
What is depressants?
100
Also known as tranquilizers
What is barbiturates?
100
A split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others
What is dissociation?
100
The three major categories of psychoactive drugs
What is depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens?
200
A compulsive craving for a substance
What is addiction?
200
Drugs that excite neural activity and speed up body functions
What is stimulants?
200
Offers a fast track from euphoria to crash. when sniffed ("snorted"), and especially when injected or smoked, this drug enters the bloodstream quickly
What is cocaine?
200
A social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur
What is hypnosis?
200
Disrupts the processing of recent experiences into long-term memories
What is alcohol?
300
The discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug
What is withdrawal?
300
Mimics neurotransmitters
What is agonists?
300
Heroin belongs to which group of psychoactive drugs
What is Depressants?
300
A suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized; used by some clinicians to help control undesired symptoms and behaviors
What is posthypnotic suggestion?
300
A psychological need to use a drug
What is psychological dependence?
400
Chemical substances that alter perceptions and moods by changing brain chemistry
What is psychoactive drugs?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Protects the brain with cells that prevent certain drugs from entering brain tissue, but alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, and other agonists/antagonists break through
What is blood brain barrier?
400
Nicotine is part of which psychoactive drug group
What is stimulants?
400
Hypnosis is a ____ state of consciousness
What is altered?
400
Hypnotic pain relief may result from what form of dual processing
What is selective attention?
500
A physiological need for a drug in order to maintain everyday functions
What is Physical Dependence?
500
Psychedelics ("mind-manifesting") drugs that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input
What is hallucinogens?
500
An altered state of consciousness reported after close brush with death ; often similar to drug-induced hallucinations
What is near-death experience?
500
A person feels this way after being hypnotized (not themselves)
What is a hidden observer?
500
A powerfully addictive drug that stimulates the CNS, appears to reduce baseline dopamine levels